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11:8

(In »Syntheism as a radicalisation of atheism – and its dialectical dissolution«)

By reason of this, the existentially necessary metaphysics seems rather to be disengaged from the physics that is every bit as inevitable. Without thereby succumbing to any kind of dualism, even in a monist world we are reduced to this duality, but it is our human senses and their phenomenological information processing that compels this, not some external, ontological property of existence. This means that there is a transrational wisdom in this metaphysical madness. To put it plainly, it is actually impossible to think ourselves past the ego experience. A world without subjects is a logical impossibility, since however illusory or artificial the ego is in the equation of life, the ego remains the basis for the entire existential experience. It is simply necessary for Man to be a pathological creature, to so to speak consciously fool himself, in order to be able to achieve the existential experience at all. And when we finally do choose to accept the ego that we have just revealed to be an illusory trick, we also get access to all the dazzling metaphysics. We believe consciously against our better judgement, and this we do wisely.