Are we doomed to live only a subjective life?

We live an objective life, with a subjective consciousness.





The fact that ideas about life don%26#039;t only affect you as a subject, but when rational, affect all life, should serve as evidence of the objectivity of life. Furthermore these rational ideas about life would still apply if your subjective faculties (your consciousness) were somehow suspended or impaired, whether you%26#039;re asleep, faint, put under anesthetic, or fall into a coma. In every case you are still alive and in every case, you live without subjectivity. Life happens without needing someone to be conscious of it.





The error is in equating consciousness with life, or even arrogantly, with reality. Reality is objective; life is part of objective reality; consciousness is the subjective faculty or life associated with awareness of reality.
Are we doomed to live only a subjective life?
ONLY a subjective life? It is the subjectiveness that gives any meaning to anything. Otherwise we would be as interested in life as a leg is interested to be part of a table.





And no, we are not doomed to it - we are fortunate if we have it. The starkest mental illnesses are the absence of it. Those people don%26#039;t feel anything.