ABSTRACT
We have established that knowledge is not a relation between mind and matter, that is, between consciousness, evolution’s most astonishing production, and the rest of the world. When we started with introspection, we got consciousness, and with consciousness, we got fashioned imagesnatural ones or artificial ones. But however we turned and no matter how we manipulated those images, we never got beyond consciousness. Any relationship was a relation between consciousness and its images. If there was cognition, it was cognition of images; not of the world. Alternatively, we found that consciousness can be labelled by words or sentences. But such labelling is hypothetical and the determination of the labels comes from the language one is speaking-not from the constitution of the world or its properties. Labels do not lead to knowledge, and the relationship they establish between knower and known is a social, not a cognitive relationship.
