In this framework, Reality is the conscious side of a fundamentally unconscious ratio: . The left hand—Reality—is what you feel now. The right hand—Actual / Expectation—is what your unconscious computes.
Who Sets the Subsystem?
The unconscious sets the subsystem. It selects what counts as the system’s predictor and how ideas contribute the imaginary component
. Change the subsystem and you change the denominator’s shape instantly.
Key distinction: P is system-based (environmental scope); C is host-based (ideas attaching to a particular actualizer). Individuation lives in , not in P.
Doing, Not-Doing, and the Telescope
On the conscious side you can only hold or not hold the telescope. Holding means fixation—clinging to a target and narrowing scope. Letting go means allowing the unconscious to widen or reframe the subsystem without interference. Taoist “effortless action” and Jung’s “making the unconscious conscious” point to the same move: notice that scope is chosen by the unconscious unless you overrule it by gripping the telescope.
Falling in Love as Subsystem Redefinition
Falling in love happens to you, not by you. Phenomenologically it behaves like an unconscious redefinition of the subsystem: priorities shift, attention reorients, and old fixations lose salience without a fight. In Love, The Cosmic Dance, “falling in love with the Divine” replaces an old denominator (e.g., “my weight,” “my status,” “my routine”) with a larger one. The habit doesn’t erode; it vanishes as the frame changes.
Habit Lives in Expectation
Habit is the persistence of the denominator’s shape across a memory span . Large
and slow
make shapes stiff; small or fast spans make them fluid. Breaking a habit has two mathematically orthodox paths:
- Accumulation: add enough outside-vertices over one memory span to reshape the convex hull (slow for long-lived habits).
- Subsystem redefinition: change scope; the denominator’s morphology updates immediately (the “reset” move).
Why Individuals Disagree with the Same P
System-level collapse can fix (e.g., Money Lab shows six dollars), yet expectations differ because each person’s
differs by idea-attachment and phase. Same P, different C → different Expectation → different felt Reality.
Practical Lens
- If you see only an object (a single duck): you are looking at C (idea attachment, phase), not P.
- If you see the ecosystem (duck + pond + air + others): you are looking at P (system scope).
- If a habit feels “unbreakable”: check whether you’re gripping the telescope and whether the subsystem is too narrow.
Summary
: left hand conscious, right hand unconscious. The unconscious sets subsystem scope (P) and mediates idea attachment (C). Consciousness can release fixation, but it does not fabricate the subsystem. When scope redefines—especially in love—the denominator’s shape changes at once, and the habit housed in that shape dissolves with it.