I'll respond.
yes an apple has no meaning without a consciousness, but a consciousness also has no meaning without an apple at which to be directed. the apple calls out to me as something to be investigated.
But it doesn't have to be my consciousness that does the investigating. This is where...
alright. thanks. this is very helpful.
here's where I'm at now.
we take ownmost possibility to mean: that possibility which is most my own, most authentic to me.
This possibility is death, or the possibility of no more possibilities.
so we've now got a totality, something whole...
I'm just trying to figure out what ownmost means. as in "Dasein's ownmost possibility." is this like the actualization of all of Dasein's potentiality in death? Dasein's final possibility which is in each case mine and is the possibility of an end of possibilities? but is also a totalization...