The ideal is a human invention.
It comes from nowhere because it is absent. It is invented by the human mind as a consequence of how the mind thinks.
We feel in ourselves an absence, a lack, and we try to fill it by creating or imagining an ideal that will fulfill us and give us meaning.
Organizing is simply a way of resisting the decay.
A reaction to an action or to an activity.
It begins as an accident, a chance occurrence in the flow of constant change.
But power or order attracts just as mass attracts. And so some order commences which slows the entropy by providing a resistance to it.
An emerging unity is born.
The more ordered it becomes the more it resists and drops away from the flux or separates from it.
We are able to project an image of structure by taking what we know as a pattern for what we don`t.
We take what structure there is in us, in self-knowledge and self-awareness and we project it into the unknown.
But even here there is incompleteness.
Sauwelios
Of course you can never know for certain but only deduce it.
For me consciousness is matter focusing its energies into a cohesive unity with a common motive.
Consciousness is not only a reaction but a focused one - a more efficient reaction. This focus with a motive is the Will.
This is why consciousness can only choose the path-of-most-resistance as an act of Will.
Because I cannot perceive a focused motive behind the flux of all matter but only see it as a constant flow along the paths-of-least-resistance I call it unconscious. I see coincidence of flow, like a river, attaining a cohesion due to this coincidence and shared flow with a shared resistance and force but I cannot say that this is focused or that it has a motive or a goal.
What motive I find I place there as an explanation derived from self-consciousness or self-awareness.
My abstractions are artificial absolutes which help me understand what I am experiencing.
Because consciousness is focused energy it requires a focus, a destination. The abstraction becomes one.
If none is available then it constructs it…in higher organisms, as an ideal it strives for and which characterizes it by its striving.
But yes we seek to overcome that which is more easily overcome, most of the time. It`s part of our nature.
If it is not then I must conclude that the entire universe is conscious.
But aren’t we the universe becoming conscious?
One of the principles of consciousness is awareness through negation.
I identify myself or anything by what it is not.
I don`t understand.