505.70 Topology of Minimum Awareness

505.71 Awareness seems to be the one minimal word best expressing the experience of life. Awareness is inherently plural, for it consists of the individual system that becomes aware and the first minimum otherness of which it is aware: such otherness may be integrally internal or externally separate of the observing system. We say, “No otherness: no awareness”, (Sec. 905.02). A philosopher may question that statement, saying, “No, you are wrong because awareness can be exclusively of self. ” But we reply by recapitulating the inherent minimum topology of awareness:

minimum self and minimum otherness are both systems, each having both insideness and outsideness;

one part of a system cannot exist without the other;

an experienceable point is substantial;

all substance has insideness and outsideness;

all substances are divisible into minimum substances;

each minimum substance is always a whole system; and

each system always has insideness and outsideness and four minimumsystem-defining events, all of which events are inherently nonsimultaneous and only overlappingly co-occurring.

505.72 Ergo, the minimum cognition employs the information-sensing, remembering, and recognizing circuitry of the organic substance’s minimum self-sensing awareness, which could only be at a minimum one as a system of four minimum-event components, being aware of its own integral system’s otherness-defining components. Ergo, experientially, no otherness: no awareness. Q.E.D.

505.73 All minimum otherness or all minimum-observer self are both plural unity with mutual interawareness. Interawareness means one system aware of another system or the outsideness of a system aware of its system’s insideness.

505.74 The observer and the observed constitute two points differentiated against an area of nothingness with an inherent interrelationship line of awareness running between the two points. (See Sec. 264.01.) Thus there is a minimum set of four awareness aspects of life:

1. the observer;

2. the observed;

3. the line of interrelationship; and

4. the background nothingness against which the somethingness is ob­served.