Through Plato and his philosophy, the whole matrix of neocheating was set, the spell of mysticism was deliberately cast upon humanity, and the reign of master neocheaters became firmly established in the course of history. Platonistic philosophy begins by accepting the primacy of consciousness, that is, by reversing the relationship of consciousness to existence. It assumes that reality must conform to the content of consciousness, not the other way around, based upon the premise that the presence of any concept in consciousness proves the existence of a corresponding referent in reality. Plato thus validates de jure self-made realities while invalidating de facto reality as such. The particulars they subsume, the concrete objects that constitute this world, are not.
Existence exists and exists independently of consciousness.
Consciousness exists to identify reality or existence and in the very fact that consciousness must exist to be conscious of reality or existence, the primacy of existence to consciousness is evident. The primacy of existence and the ultimacy of reality is the alpha and the omega of all valid conceptual knowledge. Existence is reality involved metaphysically and reality is existence involved epistemologically. Existence is what is given to consciousness metaphysically while reality is what is revealed to consciousness by consciousness epistemologically. Existence and reality are in essence synonymous, and as existence exists independently of consciousness, so does reality.