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To exist in any meaningful sense, a thing must be knowable. It must be able to be revealed to awareness in some way or be within the realm of possibility of being known.
Knowledge or knowability depends on the presence of a knower. Without a conscious entity or a knower, there can be no knowledge of a thing.
A knower is a conscious entity that possesses the instruments of knowledge, such as the mind and the sense organs. Consciousness is necessary for someone to be a knower.
Ultimately, all knowers, knowledge, and existence depend on consciousness. Consciousness or awareness is the fundamental ground for any form of knowing or existence.
The podcast explores the idea that for something to exist, it must be knowable in some way. The knowability of something determines its meaningful existence.
The podcast discusses the concept of dependent existence, stating that anything that depends on something else is not real in itself. It uses examples like a lectern depending on wood to highlight this idea. The speaker emphasizes that the only real existence is consciousness, which appears as the knower and the knowable in the waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states.
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