(Ii.1) Humans tend to think of themselves as beings
or, more specifically, as human beings. That raises the
question of what human being actually is. What
is the essence of our being? Is it the opposite of not
being? If so, what is not being? Are humans beings
at all?
(Ii.1.1) We appear to get our sense of being
as a child of consciousness. Without consciousness we
human beings would have no sense of being at
all.
(Ii.1.21) But consciousness appears
to be the child of our awareness of the existence being
as opposed to not being, as something other than own
"human" being. For example, we have no direct sensory
means of detecting the being of elemental oxygen in the air that
surrounds us as a diatomic molecule composed of two oxygen atoms. But let a
bolt of lightening pass through the air and cause three atoms of oxygen to form
a triatomic molecule of oxygen we call ozone that we can and do smell after a
thunderstorm. Does that mean diatomic oxygen is not a being
simply because we cannot gain awareness of it by
sensing it? Or is being simply a mental phenomenon
that creates the illusion of something that does not otherwise exist
as a being?
(Ii.2) All that humans can offer as proof of their being is
the phenomenon of consciousness which we somehow
sense. We are aware of our awareness of
our environment. Indeed, we have no proof of
the materiality of consciousness. But could consciousness
have a material being like that of diatomic oxygen which
we cannot sense? The answer seems to be that if we cannot sense
it we cannot know it. But that does not preclude its being,
only our ability to know of its being.
(Ii.2.1) As such, this philosophy makes
the assertion that humans are incapable of knowing absolute
being or not being with absolute certainty. We
are, however, aware of phenomena such as consciousness,
awareness, sensation for which we do not know the essence
of its being.
(Ii.3) This philosophy asserts that the essence of being is
unknowable but that awareness of phenomena arising
from being is possible when the being is sensate.
(Ii.3.1) The possibility of an Ultimate
Supreme Being is an example. We cannot know its essence,
but only of sensations of its possible being as the
phenomenon of cconsciousness, awareness and sensation
in the human brain. But, as it is, the Ultimate
Supreme Being remains the deus ex machina
of this philosophy.
Summation
(Ii) The essence of being or not
being is unkowable to humans. We can only have
possible evidence of its nature as phenomenon of consciousness,
awareness and sensation in the human brain.
That is, phenomenon of consciousness, awareness and sensation
are not a material part of being but an immaterial effect
of being itself.