I have an idea for discussing the so-called subjective aspect of human action (feeling, perceiving, thinking, etc.) in comparison to the so-called objective aspect (human processes and structures that we can observe from the outside and measure). Historically, we have come to talk about them as if they were two different things that mysteriously interact with each other. But that is kind of like thinking of magnetism and electricity as two different processes. Just as one discovers that they are two aspects of the same reality called electromagnetism, so two, one can discover that the subjective/objective are likewise two different aspects of the same hylomorphic reality. Of course, this analogy limps if you take it too far...
Commentary and discussion regarding science, faith and culture by Leo White
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