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Part I. Effective-Meaning: Objective-Time
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conscious can have knowledge. Since we are describing a unity of possibilities and not of hard facts, this is enough to suit our purposes. If there is objective truth, we would need objective perceptions to perceive it. If we perceived that we perceived objective truth, we would have objective knowledge. Because all awareness requires self-consciousness, if we know anything we know that what we perceive has truth. This is the same as saying that to know anything is to have objective knowledge about the self. This is because the self that is not perceived is a self that we cannot responsibly control; without the potential to be responsibly controlled anything would be dead.
So let�s go over our options: Can life be entirely subjective, if any conscious being has knowledge? While God�s subjectivity may be irrelevant to mortals, mortal�s objectivity may not be irrelevant to God. For any knowledge is true insofar as it affects our lives, and we can say that so long as it is true, it is objective. For if we know it and it is true in the world, it is a universal law of those two realms. That is to say, so long as something has truth to someone, it affects one aspect of the universe. So long as people share the same world, they will be affected by other�s perceptions. For to be aware of awareness is to recognize that there is a balance between opposites. And any being seeing such contradictions would seek amelioration between them, attempting to seek a reunion of seemingly opposing parts.
If there is knowledge in the form of consciousness, and we can call this knowledge objective because it applies to the world, is it possible that there is amelioration between Objective-God and Subjective-Perception? Whether or not we perceive, and whether or not there is a God, we can say that insofar as our subjective world is objective, we have knowledge. But to perceive is to exist, so it follows that God and Subjectivity are two things that must be reconciled to find our central truth.
If we look at the Subjective-Perception scale we can see this really as a measurement from Objective (and relativistic) condition to (God or) Objective Knowledge. Because God is more Perceptive than Subjective under our definition, it follows that the Objective and Subjective must be compatible for a reconciliation between Effective-Meaning and Subjective-Perception.
So it seems that the Subjective World coexists with the Perceptive World where there is consciousness, and consciousness must exist in the Subjective World if it is to have Effective-Meaning. The Effective-Meaning of Subjective-Perception is Consciousness. Since a Soul is that which is conscious, a World with Effective-Meaning and Subjective-Perception in relation to Objective-Time and Objective-God is a Soul.
Effective-Meaning : Subjective-Perception = Soul.
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Iteration 1
Iteration 2
Iteration 3
Iteration 4
Iteration 5
Iteration 6
PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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