In this framework, Reality is the conscious side of a fundamentally unconscious ratio:
Who Sets the Subsystem?
The unconscious sets the subsystem. It selects what counts as the system’s predictor
Key distinction: P is system-based (environmental scope); C is host-based (ideas attaching to a particular actualizer). Individuation lives in
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
- 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
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.

