The Dynamic Process of Consciousness

"I think that there's a sense from this history is a very unpredictable, not unpredictable, but in the sense that it's a dynamic process," he says. "You're not going to necessarily be able to break out of that scaffolding just through pure consciousness." If we have certain attitudes, habits, opinions and institutions, those are ultimately uncaused causes; they are independent things. And so basically, he presents a sort of economic model in which the economy explains why society is as it is. The alternative would be to say: 'There's nothing to explain'