A simple rearrangement of the three metaphysical axioms in order to convey the relation between the first two core branches of philosophy.
In Metaphysics: existence (identity) is primary, ‘external’; consciousness is secondary and thus shown as ‘internal’ — information processes evolved as parts within a larger space–time whole.
In Epistemology this is reversed: consciousness (identification) becomes primary; existence (identity) is what consciousness is about — our present experience is everything to us.
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