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Part I. Effective-Meaning: Objective-Time
�1.a Iteration 4 page 6
Let�s look at the second case. Since the first case represented God, or anything with a quality of God, it would make sense if the second case stood for a subjective-perceiver that is not God, that is, entirely without Objective-Perception. If we break down the meanings it becomes clear that these are the qualities of someone with absolute Subjective-Perception:
1. What he knows is changing
2. Nothing outside of himself has meaning,
3. He has no concept of death,
4. Mortality is the life he knows.
At first glance it looks as though Subjectivity involves abysmal ignorance. Combining 3 and 4 gives us the conclusion that he �has no concept of what he knows.� We might conclude that he is not self-conscious, because he lacks a self-reference loop. But actually, he may have self-conscious perceptions, and simply lack a grounding in the world, a grounding of experiences. Because the world is dead to him, and won�t respond to the feelings of significance he has within himself, he has doubts about the relationship between himself and other people. Compared to his thoughts and feelings, the physical world seems harsh and unforgiving. He overcompensates by imagining that the world is inside his own head. His thoughts are the weather; the rains and the storms, but the soil is unyielding. His garden of falsehoods will bear no fruit.
Now we can combine the qualities of the Objective-Subjective and the absolute Subjective to find gray areas inbetween� So let�s see if we can mesh each corresponding number�
1. a. He sees himself and his perceptions as the significant factors, the substance of life b. but what he knows is changing.
2. a. Not only does the world change, the world is affected by change, that is, he creates or alters the world by an act of will b. but nothing outside of himself has meaning.
3. a. Some things are meaningless to him. b. but he has no concept of death.
4. a. If he is mortal, he understands that there are beings and significances beyond himself. b. but mortality is the life he knows.
Combining the Objective-Subjective and the Subjective gives us a sense of the qualities of a Subjective perceiver who is conscious, but without absolute knowledge.~10 We can interpret the previous four as follows: 1. He has changing perceptions 2. He knows that he affects the world, but he doesn�t see how it can have significance 3. The unity isn�t meaningful, but nothing is absolutely meaningless 4. There are beings and significances beyond himself, but they seem meaningless in comparison to his meaninglessness.
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FOOTNOTES
10. If we can say that a perceived world that is not conscious is material, then we can claim that a subjective world without absolute knowledge is materialistic (in the sense that it doesn�t serve its own purposes). So long as something is not conscious, it must act by simple cause and effect. It cannot interpret or change something according to its own purposes.
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Part 1a.
Iteration 1
Iteration 2
Iteration 3
Iteration 4
Part 1b.
Iteration 5
Iteration 6
PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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