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Universality
Sleep, Death, Consciousness, and What Lies Beyond Our Capacity to Conceive
FMOO
November 3, 2026
Since universality of thought is a difficult goal to attain, the subjects it addresses can only be those that concern and involve everyone, without distinction.
These are subjects that exclude no one, bringing all human beings together, regardless of skin color or where they live on Earth.
Not because everyone experiences or interprets them in the same way, but because they concern the human condition prior to the different interpretations.
This leads us to consider at least four subjects:
- Sleep
- Death
- Consciousness
- Inner life
Each of these belongs to the realm of universality.
For the purposes of this inquiry, we deliberately set aside specific cultural and religious affiliations. Not because they lack value, but because we are looking for what brings everyone together, independently of the beliefs and interpretations that may distinguish one person from another.
But do sleep, death, consciousness, and inner life, as universal subjects, have anything in common?
