What is Existence?
A. Our experience of existence is contingent and ineffable.
• Language is dismally inadequate to express our experience of existence.
• Thought is nearly completely unconscious.
B. Abstractions are always only metaphorical.
• Yet in the civilized mind, abstractions substitute for the experience of existence.
• We are particularly delusional to speak about existence in terms of the abstract concept, "reality."
C. We should realize that the abstract distinction between body and non-body is metaphorical:
• The question of whether human development takes place by nature or nurture is not relevant.
• The question of whether mind is embodied or disembodied is not relevant.
The abstraction-as-reality concept, "god" has been an essential part of the evolution of abstraction-as-reality. It idealizes absolute form as the perfection towards which finite abstraction may crawl. Whether it is the technology of religion, or science, or philosophy, humans are on their hands and knees, crawling in submission to the process of the so-called enlightenment of the delusional concept, "reality."
I also don't use the term, "ultimate reality" in materialization of some "cosmic fabric" beyond our cognitive capacity, any more, because of its muddling in the primordially fallacious concept, "reality."
The concept "reality" is abstract crap, which has stimulated and continues to stimulate the actual fantastic materialization of real gods in so-called enlightenment of "reality," as well as the whole fantastically complex technology of science serving the same motivational and befuddling function on the human side. The concept "reality" also stimulates the technology of philosophy in which humans endlessly talk absolute hogwash in search of this non-existent "reality," in mindless perpetuation of the dismal process.
I now use the term, "the experience of existence."
And that is it, because the emotional experience of existence is indefinably profound in its contingency and ineffability.
So the question arises, does it make sense to talk about anything?
Yes, why not? In the realization that speech is necessarily metaphorical, mythological and poetic about our wonderful emotional experience of existence.
I know that I will have to elaborate this thesis hugely to overcome the skepticism of all the different kinds of slavishly engaged minds at every level. Apart from Religion, Science and Philosophy, Engineering, Psychology and the Law come to mind!