What We Know

In some ways and to some extent, we do know what we experience as conscious entities. We know what we experience while we experience it, and know that we are experiencing it.

The psychic structures organizing what we experience, and the nature of the phenomena that we phenomenologically process are elements of our consciousness whose essential natures are what we do not know and likely cannot know, even with great scientific training or apperceptive genius introspectively focused. To experience the contents of our consciousness is not the same as knowing the character of those contents, or being able to predict their importance going forward.

We think therefore we are. We experience thoughts, feelings, passions, urges and impulses. That we experience incoming external feed, and internally generated messages from our bodies, our souls, and from our biologically-based subconscious. These phenomena we experience, and that is real knowledge. How to define and explain--to actually know--the quintessential structures contained within each of such phenomena is another, perhaps impossible intellectual quest.