Mark --
I think you are pointing towards the observer. Something I have
termed as the true subjective. Differentiation may happen when
the brain sorts input in a meaningful way, but such differentiation
is not the subjective. Such differentiation is then witnessed by the
subjective.
You are splitting hairs, but "witnessed by the subjective" is probably as
accurate as any word description for self-awareness can be. My point,
however, is that separating out the conscious self must be primary to what
that self observes or experiences of otherness. Technically speaking,
proprietary sensibility is the fundamental unit of "selfness". And that
sensibility has but one metaphysical referent to draw upon: namely, the
Value of Essence.
To find such a thing with our current technology, results in nothing
measurable. I believe it is this true subjective that would be negation
itself, to use your terminology. It is the process behind such
differentiation
that I am after. Negation is fine, but being a scientist I would say that
the number one is negated by the number negative one. This is why I
asked whether Absolute Essence was the mirror image of what is. Now,
the possibilities of what is, is endless, which would make such essence
absolute, but not in the same way you are proposing.
It's time to swap your scientist's cap for a philosopher's fez, Mark, The
self (negate) is not a quantum entity like an atom or particle, so it can't
be quantified or measured and will never be "discovered" by technology.
Nonetheless, it is the locus of awareness in the experiential world of
relational phenomena. As for your suggested analogy of Essence being a
"mirror image of what is", I would turn this around and say that cognizant
experience is a diffracted image of what absolutely is. Do not confuse
Absolute with infinite or "endless possibilities". The domain of
cause-and-effect and resultant possibility is Existence. That which IS
absolutely is not possibility but essential Oneness. All otherness is a
negation of that Essence.
I leave you with three of the most profound insights in literary history to
meditate upon:
"The divine One is a negation of negations. Every creature contains a
negation: one denies that it is the other. [Even] an angel denies that it
is any other creature; but God contains the denial of denials: He is the One
who denies of every other that he is anything except himself." [Meister
Eckhart]
"The first principle cannot be other, either than an other or than nothing,
and likewise is not opposed to anything." [Nicholas of Cusa]
"For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know IN
PART, but then shall I know even as also I AM KNOWN." [I Corinthians,
emphasis mine]
Essentially yours,
Ham
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