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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Is consciousness a higher layer of abstraction, or is it the most concrete thing we can know?
gpt
This very antimony is the first problem wrestled with by Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit, and resurfaces throughout his work. Sense certainty, while initially appearing to be concrete, struggles with the problem of indexicals. The idea of an object, which might seem to be an abstraction imposed on sense data, is actually a means of making the consciousness of exteriority more sensible (thus avoiding the “now is night” problem)