Philosophy of Physical Metaphors

The "intentional inexistence" of the object really means that the object cannot be located as a matter of fact in physical space and time. Further, mind operates by physical laws though not like the body. Rather mind and consciousness are more like an electromagnetic field, a system of electrical signals which work at the speed of light (in a vacuum) and so seems more simultaneous and unified than the mechanical motion of the body. When we say there is nothing, we really mean there isn't something extended in space-time with causal relations with objects that we thought would be there. Being in thought (being-for-itself) doesn't mean being in some immaterial world or nothingness, but only not having individuated bound existence. The free energy to do work is out there, until maximum entropy, to become bound energy to create from matter what is being entertained by the electrical activity of our brains.

Using scientific metaphors can help us make sense of the philosophers. Freedom and the nothingness of consciousness is the potential for free energy to be put to work and become bound energy to create from the matter of the universe what the electrical activity of the nervous system is itself bound to presenting to us as desirable. To choose the meaning of life we must convert electrical energy to mechanical energy, from the nervous system to the muscles, with the help of our technology too.

We aren't free in the libertarian sense of free will as we're subject to the determination of the laws of physics, and the real discrepancy between desire and reality is between the representation of the sensual world via the nervous system and the world of matter. Electromagnetism operates at the speed of light as light doesn't have rest mass. The objects of the "external" world of ordinary experience have rest mass meaning that it takes energy to overcome resistance to changes in motion and so cannot go faster than light. This is responsible for causality in the universe, as everything is instantaneous at the speed of light. The existence of rest mass makes it so events occur in space time in some sort of order.