Humans always come back to trying to answer such questions in terms of something they are familiar with (the empirical). So Rich, for example, wants to say the noumena, reality in itself, is a hologram. This is just as incoherent as saying it is a cup, or a molecule, or energy, or mind. — John
What could it even mean to ask if the noumenal cup, the cup in itself, is in the cupboard, though? — John
I would instead say that the question is without a sense; it is an example of language pushed too far. — Banno
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