I’ve only read up to section 2. But I’m not convinced this puzzle is as difficult as you make it out to be. You say:
Unlike empirical puzzles that yield to scientific methodology, the primacy question, whether philosophy precedes reality or emerges from it, resists resolution through conventional logical analysis precisely because both concepts operate within domains of profound subjectivity.
Has it really resisted resolution? I think you resolve it pretty decisively in section 1. I see the gist of the argument as this:
1. Philosophy is a thing only humans do.
2. Other stuff (planets, chemicals, bacteria) existed before humans.
3. So other stuff existed before philosophy.
This seems resolved to me. I didn’t continue on after this because I felt that the motivating question of the post had an easy answer. And I found the use of unnecessarily large words off-putting. For example, it’s unclear what value is added by phrasing section 1 like this:
Before the emergence of human consciousness and the cognitive capacity for philosophical abstraction, reality existed as a system of causalities, physical laws, chemical reactions, biological processes, operating independently of interpretation or conceptualization.
After pasting in the text to two AI detectors, both say the text is likely AI generated.
I’ve only read up to section 2. But I’m not convinced this puzzle is as difficult as you make it out to be. You say:
Has it really resisted resolution? I think you resolve it pretty decisively in section 1. I see the gist of the argument as this:
1. Philosophy is a thing only humans do.
2. Other stuff (planets, chemicals, bacteria) existed before humans.
3. So other stuff existed before philosophy.
This seems resolved to me. I didn’t continue on after this because I felt that the motivating question of the post had an easy answer. And I found the use of unnecessarily large words off-putting. For example, it’s unclear what value is added by phrasing section 1 like this:
After pasting in the text to two AI detectors, both say the text is likely AI generated.