Structures of experience

From chapter 5 of The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe. Copyright (c) 2009 by Richard Smoley

Patterns in Her Garment

The reflections in the previous chapter have raised a complication. Up to that point the scheme that I’ve been outlining had a remarkable simplicity: all that there is consists of consciousness and experience. Now we have found that something else is involved: the modes or ways in which consciousness engages with its experience. We may think of these modes in terms of Kant’s categories, of the Samkhya enumeration, or of any number of other systems. But the upshot is the same: mind as we know it is structured to experience the world in certain ways. This fact imposes certain limitations upon it.