264.10 Prime Othernesses: Single and Plural Otherness

264.11 While environment plus me equals Universe, Universe minus me does not equal environment.

264.12 Environment does not exist without me. I the observer am the living human experience. Life is the present experience. Experience begins with awareness. No otherness: No awareness.

264.13 I am one of the two prime othernesses: I am the single otherness; environment is the plural otherness. I am the present otherness; environment is the past otherness. By the time I have become aware, other as-yet-untuned-in events of nonunitarily conceptual Universe have transpired. Environment is inherently historical. Universe is eternally inclusive of all past, present, and future experiences plus all the at-present-untune-in-able otherness of Universe. Universe is eternally general; environment is always special case.

264.14 Environment is the complex of all observed experiences of all life. Environment is the present scene, and all the remembered scenes, and all the scenes remembered by all the other scenes, which I cannot remember but memories of which are all registered in the environment to be re-disclosed from time to time.

264.15 Every individual is an evolutionary pattern integrity. Each individual’s environment of the moment is different from that of the next moment and from that of every other individual, though two or more individuals may think that they are mutually experiencing the same environment. The individual is the product and servant of a plurality of semisimilarities of mutual tuned-in-ness.