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A fundamental life form has three fundamental properties or essences;
- Awareness
- Analysis
- Influence (affectance)
A conscience life form has a special form of awareness called “perception”. And that perception ability yields the property of remote recognition (being able to realize/perceive the remote sources of a sensed affects). And through that property, an internal subjective map (an updating understanding or ontology) of the terrain called “reality” forms its consciousness.
As any conscious life perceives affects upon it, it automatically classifies, by a variety of criteria, a “Perception of Hope and Threat”, PHT, or “threat assessment” value relating to a variety of potential concerns. It is from such PHT assessments and values that the life form chooses its conscious actions. PHT guides all life.
The homosapian has an unusually high (for the animal kingdom) ability to mentally work with his internal map. He can not only remember actual perceptions, but also remember his own guesses and deductions of what might be true of his environment. He can intentionally or inadvertently alter his PHT map and even his perceptions through interdependent algorithms (not always accurate). And that poses a unique problem.
Homosapian has the ability to alter his own perception of reality. That makes his actions more independent of reality. But of course, it does not alter the real consequences of those actions. Thus he has the ability to fool himself into tragedy. He can cause himself to believe and behave as if he is independent of causality and consequence.
In addition to fooling himself, he has the ability to influence the perception of others and thus fool them as well. The others need not alter their perception very much because he is giving them directed, intentional affectance. He is intentionally altering their internal map, their perception and PHT. He does this so as to gain greater influence through their influence that is guided by their PHT. He can become a “Puppet Master” of others.
A homosapian can figure out how to use a horse to carry him, to use a cow to plow for him, a bird to see for him, a dog to hunt for him, and subjects to fight and die for him. He is a user of tools that often include other living creatures.
So homosapian is half blind from his altering of his own perception and half blind from having his perception altered by others. Thus he has affect upon the Earth through using misguided perception in mass - a Perception Driven Affectance upon the Earth, most often self-deluded by his attempts to be even more influential, a Godwannabe.