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Consciousness in the Universe According to Phenomenological Structuralism

Paul C. Mocombe West Virginia State University, Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. *Corresponding Author: Paul C. Mocombe, West Virginia State University, Mocombeian Foundation, Inc, Email Id: [email protected]

ABSTRACT This work highlights the nature and origin of consciousness in the universe according to Paul C. Mocombe’s structurationist theory of phenomenological structuralism. The author, building on the quantum computation of ORCH-OR theory and the ideas of Haitian ontology/epistemology and quantum mechanics abductively posits that consciousness is a fifth force of nature, a quantum material substance/energy, psychion, the phenomenal property of which is recycled/entangled/superimposed throughout the multiverse and becomes embodied via the microtubules of brains and multiple worlds. It is manifested in simultaneous, entangled, superimposed, and interconnecting material resource frameworks, multiple worlds, as praxis or practical consciousness of organic life, which in-turn becomes the phenomenal properties of material (subatomic particle energy, psychion) consciousness that is recycled throughout the . Keywords: Structurationism, Praxis, Panpsychism, Social Class Language Game, Phenomenological Structuralism, ORCH-OR Theory

INTRODUCTION worlds. The academic literature “describes three possibilities regarding the origin and place of This work highlights the nature and origin of consciousness in the universe: (A) as an consciousness in the universe according to Paul C. emergent property of complex brain neuronal Mocombe‟s (2016, 2017, 2018) structurationist computation, (B) as spiritual quality of the theory of phenomenological structuralism. The universe, distinct from purely physical actions, author, building on the quantum computation of and (C) as composed of discrete „proto- ORCH-OR theory and the multiverse ideas of conscious‟ events acting in accordance with Haitian ontology / epistemology and quantum physical laws not yet fully understood” mechanics abductively posits that consciousness is (Hameroff and Penrose, 2014, pg. 70). The a fifth force of nature, a quantum material latter position, (C), represents the ORCH-OR substance/energy, psychion, the phenomenal (“orchestrated objective reduction”) theory of property of which is superimposed, entangled, and Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose (2014), recycled throughout the multiverses and becomes which includes aspects of (A) and (B), and posits embodied via the microtubules of brains and that “consciousness consists of discrete moments, multiple worlds. It is manifested in simultaneous, each an „orchestrated‟ quantum-computational entangled, superimposed, and interconnecting process terminated by… an action [,objective material resource frameworks, multiple worlds, as reduction or rooted in quantum aspects of the praxis or practical consciousness of aggregated fine structure of space—time geometry, this organic life, which in-turn, following death or being coupled to brain neuronal processes via disaggregation, becomes the phenomenal properties microtubules” (pg. 70). In this view, the of material (subatomic particle energy, psychion) understanding is that a proto-conscious consciousness that is recycled throughout the experience existed in the universe, panpsychism, multiverses. and as a result of emergent structures of the brain it BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM (proto-conscious experience, psychion) became embodied and evolved as a result of quantum Consciousness here refers to subjective Awareness neuronal computations of “brains.” Paul C. of phenomenal experiences (ideology, language, Mocombe‟s (2016, 2017, 2018) structurationist self, feelings, choice, control of voluntary sociology, phenomenological structuralism, behavior, thoughts, etc.) of internal and external which attempts to resolve the structure/agency

Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology V1 ● I1 ● 2019 1 Consciousness in the Universe According to Phenomenological Structuralism problematic of the social sciences, builds on the of an individual actors‟ (mental) stance/analytics ORCH-OR theory and panpsychism of (Martin Heidegger‟s term) vis-à-vis three types of Hameroff and Penrose, while holding on to the structures/systems of signification amidst the multiverse hypothesis of quantum mechanics practical consciousness associated with societal and Haitian ontology/epistemology, which the structural reproduction and differentiation (the authors reject because it is not “a more down-to- social system): 1) the (chemical, biological, and earth viewpoint” (Hameroff and Penrose, 2014, physiological) drives (forms of sensibility and pg. 51). For Mocombe (2016, 2017, 2018), understanding) of the body and brain (the quantum superposition, entanglement, and biological system), 2) impulses or phenomenal evidence in Haitian Vodou of spirit possession, properties of residual past consciousnesses or which represent ancestors from a parallel world, recycled / entangled / superimposed subatomic / Vilokan, of the earth‟s of which we ought to chemical particles encapsulated in and as the pattern our behaviors and structures, are neuronal energies of the brain via microtubules grounding proofs for the acceptance of the (the physical system), 3) and actions or practical multiple worlds hypothesis of quantum consciousnesses resulting from the deferment of mechanics. Within the latter hypothesis, the meaning in ego-centered linguistic and symbolic understanding is that “each possibility in a communicative discourse (the linguistic system). superposition evolves to form its own universe, Generally speaking, consciousnesses, actions resulting in an infinite multitude of coexisting (practical consciousness), learning, and „parallel‟ worlds. The stream of consciousness development within Mocombe‟s phenomenological of the observer is supposed somehow to „split‟, structural ontology are the product of the so that there is one in each of the worlds-at least embodiment of the phenomenal properties of in those worlds for which the observer remains recycled/entangled/superimposed subatomic alive and conscious. Each instance of the neuronal energies/chemicals, psychion, of the observer‟s consciousness experiences a separate multiverse objectified in the space-time of independent world, and is not directly aware of multiverses via the aggregated body and the any of the other worlds” (Hameroff and microtubules of the brain. Once objectified and Penrose, 2014, pg. 50). It is within this multiple embodied the phenomenal properties of the world‟s hypothesis that Mocombe constitutes neuronal energies/chemicals encounter the the notion of consciousness in the universe space-time of physical worlds via a according to his theory of phenomenological transcendental subject of consciousnesses (the structuralism. For Mocombe, consciousness is a aggregation of a universal-self superimposed fifth force of nature, a quantum material and entangled across the multiple worlds of the substance/energy, psychion, the phenomenal multiverse) and the drives and sensibilities of property of which is recycled/entangled the aggregated body and brain in reified /superimposed throughout the multiverse and structures of signification, language, ideology, becomes embodied via the microtubules of ideological apparatuses, and communicative brains. It is manifested in simultaneous, discourse defined and determined by other entangled, superimposed, and interconnecting beings that control the resources (economics), material resource frameworks as embodied and modes of distributing them, of the material praxis or practical consciousness, which in-turn world required for physical survival in space- becomes the phenomenal properties of material time. The Heidegger an (mental) stances / (subatomic particle energy, psychion) analytics, “ready-to-hand,” “unready-to-hand,” consciousness that is recycled/entangled and “present-at-hand,” which emerge as a result /superimposed throughout the multiverses. of conflict between the embodied transcendental THEORY AND METHOD ego vis-à-vis its different systems, 1) the sensibilities and (chemical, biological, and Structurationist sociology synthesizes structure physiological) drives of the body and brain, 2) and agency via the concept of praxis or practical drives/impulses of embodied residual memories consciousness; accounting for agency or practical or phenomenal properties of past recycled consciousness via the actions associated with /entangled/superimposed subatomic/chemical structural reproduction and differentiation within a particles, 3) the actions produced via the body in particular material resource framework (Crothers, relation to the indeterminacy/deferment of 2003; Ortner, 1984). Building on structurationist meaning of linguistic and symbolic signifiers as sociology, Mocombe argues that the “moments, they appear to individuated consciousnesses in or movements, which escape from the compound of ego-centered communicative discourse, 4) and socially constructed identifications” are the product

2 Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology V1 ● I1 ● 2019 Consciousness in the Universe According to Phenomenological Structuralism the dialectical and differentiating effects, i.e., deferment of meaning, along with the structural reproduction and differentiation, of differentiating logic or class divisions of the the structures of signification, social class social relations of production, which produces language game, of those who control the the variability of actions and practices in economic materials (and their distribution, i.e., cultures, social structures, or social systems. All mode of production) of a world are the origins four types of actions are always present and of practical consciousnesses. All four types of manifested in a social structure to some degree actions, the drives and sensibilities of the body contingent upon the will and desires of the and brain, drives or phenomenal properties of economic social class that controls the material embodied recycled/entangled/superimposed past resource framework through its body (practical consciousnesses, structural reproduction/ consciousness), language/symbols, ideology, differentiation stemming from the mode of ideological apparatuses, and social relations of production, and deferential actions arising from production. They choose, amidst the class the deferment of meaning in ego-centered division of the social relations of production, communicative discourse via the present-at- what other meaning constitutions and practices are hand stance/analytic, exist in the material world allowed to manifest themselves in the material with the social class language game, i.e., the world without facing alienation, marginalization, physical, mental, emotional, ideological, etc. 5) domination, or death. powers of those who control the material Hence, we never experience the things-in- resource framework as the causative agent for themselves of the world culturally and historically individual behaviors. In other words, our in consciousness. We experience them structurally (mental) stances in consciousness vis-à-vis the or relationally, the structure of the conjuncture of conflict between the (chemical, biological, and the mode of production, its language, ideology, physiological) drives and sensibilities of the ideological apparatuses, etc., and our (mental) body and brain, (societal) structural stances/analytics, ready-to-hand, unready-to-hand, reproduction and differentiation, drives of present-at-hand, vis-à-vis these things as they embodied past consciousnesses of recycled / appear to and in consciousness determine our entangled/superimposed subatomic/chemical practical consciousness or behaviors. particles, and deferential actions arising as a result of the deferment of meaning in ego- We initially know, experience, and utilize the centered communicative discourse determines things of and in consciousness in the the practical consciousness we want to preontological ready-to-hand mode, which is recursively reorganize and reproduce in the structural and relational. That is, our bodies material world. The power and power positions encounter, know, experience, and utilize the things of those who control (via the mode of of the world in consciousness, intersubjectively, via production, language, ideology, ideological their representation as objects of knowledge, truth, apparatuses, and communicative discourse) the usage, and experience enflamed and defined in the resources (and their distribution, i.e., mode of relational logic and practices or language game production) of a material resource framework, (Wittgenstein‟s term) of the institutions or and the threat it poses to the ontological security ideological apparatuses of the other beings-of-the- of an actor, in the end determines what actions material resource framework whose historicity and identities are allowed to organize and comes before our own and gets reified in and as the reproduce in the material world without the actions of their bodies, language, ideology, individual actor/agent facing marginalization or ideological apparatuses, mode of production, and death. communicative discourse. It is Being‟s (mental) stance/analytic, “ready-to- This is the predefined phenomenal structural, i.e., hand,” “unready-to-hand,” and “present-at- ontological, world we and our bodies are thrown- hand,” in consciousness vis-à-vis the conflict, or in in coming to be-in-the-world. How an lack thereof, between the (chemical, biological, embodied-hermeneutically-structured Being as and physiological) drives and sensibilities of the such solipsistically view, experience, aggregated body and brain, drives/impulses understand, act, and utilize the predefined (phenomenal properties) of residual past objects of knowledge, truth, and experienced consciousnesses of defined by others and their conditions of recycled/entangled/superimposed subatomic possibilities in consciousness in order to particles, alternative practices which arise as a formulate their practical consciousness is albeit result of phenomenological meditation and indeterminate.

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Martin Heidegger in Being in Time is accurate, the unready-to-hand stance in response to those however, in suggesting that three stances or who they encounter that attempts, present-at- modes of encounter (Analytic of Dasein), hand, to alter the nature of the dominant social “presence-at-hand,” “readiness-to-hand,” and class language game they recursively reorganize “un-readiness-to-hand,” characterizes our views and reproduce as outlined by those in power of the things of consciousness represented inter positions who are present-at-hand of the subjectively via bodies, language, ideology, and dominant social class language game. In either communicative discourse, and subsequently case, not all beings achieve the present-at-hand determine our practical consciousness or social stance. The latter is the stance of science and agency. ideologies, which are tautologies when they profess that their stances represent the nature of In “ready-to-hand,” which is the preontological reality as such, and those in power positions, mode of human existence thrown in the world, who choose, among a plethora of alternative we accept and use the things in consciousness present-at-hand social class language games, with no conscious experience of them, i.e., what alternative practical consciousnesses without thinking about them or giving them any outside of their social class language game that meaning or signification outside of their are allowed to manifest in the material world. intended usage. Heidegger‟s example is that of using a hammer in hammering. We use a DISCUSSION hammer without thinking about it or giving it Hence, as outlined above, phenomenological any other condition of possibility outside of its structuralism posits consciousness to be the by- intended usage as defined by those whose product or evolution of subatomic particles historicity presupposes our own. In “present-at- unfolding with increasing levels of abstraction hand,” which, according to Heidegger, is the within a material resource framework enflamed stance of science, we objectify the things of by the mode of production, language, ideology, consciousness and attempt to determine and reify their meanings, usage, and conditions of ideological apparatuses, and communicative discourse of bodies recursively reorganizing and possibilities as the nature of reality as such. reproducing the ideals of the latter factors as Hence the hammer is intended for hammering their practical consciousness. That is to say, the by those who created it as a thing solely meant logical consequence regarding the evolution and as such. constitution of the multiverses, and their The “unready-to-hand” outlook is assumed contents, based on the assumptions of when something goes wrong in our usage of a superposition, action-at-a-distance, phenomenal thing of consciousness as defined and properties, and panpsychism of quantum determined by those who adopt a “present-at- mechanics, for Mocombe, is similar to the hand” view. As in the case of the hammer, the intersecting worlds theory highlighted in Haitian unready-to-hand view is assumed when the Vodou, which parallels the , “membrane hammer breaks and we must objectify it, by then theory,” of and Raman Sundrum assuming a present-at-hand position, and think (1999). The proposal in keeping with the logic about it in order to either reconstitute it as a of Haitian Vodou and the “brane theory” of hammer, or give it another condition of Randall and Sundrum is that there might be an possibility. Any other condition of possibility additional dimension on the cosmological scale, that we give the hammer outside of its initial the scale described by general relativity, which condition of possibility which presupposed our gives rise to four dimensional multiverses historicity becomes relational, defined in within it. That is to say, our universe is relation to any of its other conditions of embedded in a vastly bigger five-dimensional possibilities it may have been given by others space (the four-dimensional space of relativity, we exist in the world with who either ready-to- plus a fifth dimension for the subatomic forces hand, unready-to-hand, or present-at-hand including consciousness), a kind of super- attempts to maintain the social class language universe. Within this super-space, our universe game of power. In the ready-to-hand stance the is just one of a whole array of co-existing latter unconsciously practices and attempts to universes (Haitian Vodou only accounts for our reproduce the social class language game of universe and its parallel), each a separate four- power by discriminating against and marginalizing dimensional bubble within a wider arena of five- any other conditions of possibilities of their dimensional space where consciousness (a social class language as determined by those in subatomic force) is recycled/entangled/ ideological power positions. They may move to superimposed between the five-dimensional

4 Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology V1 ● I1 ● 2019 Consciousness in the Universe According to Phenomenological Structuralism super-space, i.e., superverses, and their production). multiverses. Hence in the end, subject constitution is a For Mocombe the multiverses originated, from product of conflict and an individual‟s mental the super-universes, either by fiat or quantum stance, i.e., analytics, vis-à-vis three fluctuation. They are bosonic forces that were structures/systems of signification and the brought forth together with fermion counterparts. ability to defer meaning in ego-centered They are also the primeval pan-psychic fields, communicative discourse stemming from the stemming from the super-verses, whose fermion social class language game (i.e., language, can be called a psychion, a particle of consciousness symbols, ideology, ideological apparatuses, and or proto-consciousness. These have evolved communicative discourse) of those who control together to produce the four forces of nature, the mode of production of a material resource electromagnetic force; gravity; the strong nuclear framework. It is the ready-to-hand drives of the force; and weak nuclear force, in our universe, body and brain, ready-to-hand and present-at- which in turn produced atoms, molecules, and hand manifestation of past recycled residual aggregated life endowed (embodied) with the consciousnesses/subatomic particles, the recycled / entangled / superimposed consciousness present-at-hand phenomenological meditation and phenomenal properties of the primeval pan- and deferment of meaning that occurs in psychic fields, psychion, of the superverses and embodied consciousness via language, ideology, their multiverses (the fifth force of nature). and communicative discourse as reflected in Subatomic particles, via the Higgs boson diverse individual practices, within the ready-to- particle, gave rise to carbon atoms, molecules hand, unready-to-hand, and present-at-hand and chemistry, which gave rise to DNA, differentiating logic or class divisions of the biological organisms, neurons and nervous social relations of production, which produces systems, which aggregated into bodies and the variability of actions and practices in brains that gave rise to the embodiment of cultures, social structures, or social systems. All preexisting consciousness of the subatomic four types of actions, the (chemical, biological, particles, bodies, and languages from entangled/ and physiological) drives/impulses of the body superimposed multiverses. and residual past consciousnesses of subatomic particles, structural reproduction/differentiation, In human beings, the indeterminate behavior of and actions resulting from the deferment of superimposed and entangled subatomic neuronal meaning in ego-centered communicative energies that produced the plethora of discourse, are always present and manifested in consciousnesses and languages in the neocortex a social structure (which is the reified ideology of brains gave rise to ideologies, which in turn via ideological apparatuses, their social class gave rise to ideological apparatuses and language game, of those who control a material societies (sociology) under the social class resource framework) to some degree contingent language game or language, ideology, and upon the will and desires of the economic social ideological apparatuses of those who organize class that controls the material resource and control the material resources (and their framework through the actions of their bodies distribution) required for physical (embodied) (practical consciousness), language, symbols, survival in a particular resource framework. So ideology, ideological apparatuses, and social contrary to Karl Marx‟s materialism which relations of production. They choose, amidst posits human consciousness to be the product of the class division of the social relations of material conditions, the logic here is a structural production, “the structure of the conjuncture,” Marxist one in the Althusserian sense. That is, (Marshall Sahlins‟s term) what other meaning the aggregated, atomic, mature human being is a constitutions and practices are allowed to body and neuronal drives that never encounters manifest themselves without the Beings of that the (ontological) material world directly. practice facing alienation, marginalization, Instead, they encounter the (ideological) world domination, or death. The individual being is via structures of signification, which structures initially constituted as superimposed, entangled, the world or a particular part of it through the recycled, and embodied subatomic particles of body, language, ideology, ideological multiple worlds of the multiverse, which have apparatuses, and communicative discourse, i.e., their own predetermined form of understanding social class language game, of those whose and cognition, phenomenal properties, based on power and power positions dictate how the previous or simultaneous experiences as resources of that framework are to be gathered, aggregated matter (this is akin to what the Greek used, and distributed (means and mode of

Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology V1 ● I1 ● 2019 5 Consciousness in the Universe According to Phenomenological Structuralism philosopher Plato refers to when he posits and brain at the expense of the drives/desires of knowledge as recollection of the Soul). Again, the subatomic particles or the social class the individual‟s actions are not necessarily language game of the material resource framework determined by the embodiment and drives of they find their existence unfolding in. these recycled/entangled/superimposed subatomic The social class language game, and its particles. It is conflict and an individual‟s differentiating effects, an individual find their stance, ready-to-hand, unready-to-hand, and existence unfolding in is the third structuring present-at-hand, when the subatomic particles structure, which attempts to determine the become aggregated matter or embodied, which actions of individual beings as they experience determines whether are not they become aware, being-in-the-world as embodied subatomic present-at-hand, of the subatomic particle drives particles. The aggregated individual finds and choose to recursively reorganize and themselves objectified and unfolding within a reproduce the content of the drives as their material resource framework controlled by the practical consciousness. actions of other bodies, which presuppose their This desire to reproduce the cognition and existence, via the actions of their bodies understanding of the (chemical, biological, and (practical consciousness), language, communicative physiological) drives of the recycled /entangled discourse, ideology, and ideological apparatuses /superimposed subatomic particles, however, stemming from how they satisfy the desires of may be limited by the structuring structure of their bodies and subatomic particle drives the aggregated body and brain of the individual (means and mode of production). What is subject. aggregated as a social class language game by those in power positions via and within its mode That is to say, the second origins and basis of of production, language, ideology, ideological an individual‟s actions are the structuring drives apparatuses, and communicative discourse and desires, for food, clothing, shelter, social attempts to interpellate and subjectify other interaction, and sex, of the aggregated body and beings to its interpretive frame of satisfying brain, which the subatomic particles constitute their bodily needs, fulfilling the impulses of and embody. In other words, the aggregated their subatomic particles, and organizing a body and brain is preprogrammed with its own material resource framework at the expense of (biological) forms of sensibility, understanding, all others, and becomes a third form of and cognition, structuring structure, by which it structuring individual action based on the mode experiences being-in-the-world as aggregated of production and how it differentiates embodied subatomic particles. individual actors. These bodily forms of sensibility, understanding, That is to say, an individual‟s interpellation, and cognition, such as the drive and desire for subjectification, and differentiation within the food, clothing, shelter, social interaction, social class language game that presupposes linguistic communication, and sex, are tied to their being-in-a-world attempts to determine the material embodiment and survival of the their actions or practical consciousness via the embodied individual actor, and may or may not reified language, ideology, etc., of the social supersede or conflict with the desire and drive class language game, the meaning of which can of an individual to recursively (re) organize and be deferred via the communicative discourse of reproduce the structuring structure of the the individual actors. Hence, the deferment of superimposed, entangled, and recycled meaning in ego-centered communicative (phenomenal properties of) subatomic particles. discourse of the language and ideology of a If these two initial structuring structures are in social class language game is the final means of conflict, the individual moves from the ready-to- determining an individual‟s action or practical hand to the unready-to-hand stance or analytics consciousness outside of, and in relation to, its where they may begin to reflect upon and stance, i.e., analytics, vis-à-vis the drives of question their being-in-the-world prior to acting. subatomic particles, drives and desires of the Hence just as in the case of the structuring body and brain, and structural reproduction and structure of the subatomic particles it is an differentiation. individual being‟s analytics vis-à-vis the drives of its body and brain in relation to the impulses Whereas the practical consciousness of the of the subatomic particles, which determines transcendental ego stemming from the impulses whether or not they become driven by the desire of embodied subatomic particles are to solely fulfill the material needs of their body indeterminant as with its neuronal processes

6 Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology V1 ● I1 ● 2019 Consciousness in the Universe According to Phenomenological Structuralism involved with the constitution of meaning in meanings for alternative forms of being-in-the- ego-centered communicative discourse (Albeit world within their social class language. They physicists are in the process of exploring the can accept, marginalize, or seek to eradicate the nature, origins, and final states of subatomic deferred or decentered subject or their practices. particles, and neuroscientists are attempting to understand the role of neuronal activities in CONCLUSIONS developing the transcendental ego and whether Hence within the theory and methodology of or not it continues to exist after death). The phenomenological structuralism, there is, form of the understandings and sensibilities of contrary to David Hume‟s “bundle of the body and brain are determinant as with perception” hypothesis, a human essence, which structural reproduction and differentiation of the is tied to the embodiment and structuring mode of production, and therefore can be structure of the phenomenal properties of mapped out by neuroscientists, biologists, and superimposed, entangled, embodied, and sociologists to determine the nature, origins, and recycled subatomic particles, the processes of directions of societal constitution and an which are unbeknownst to us as of the writing of individual actor‟s practical consciousness this work, as they are recursively reorganized unfolding. and reproduced via the superverse and its multiverses. The interaction of all four elements or processes in relation to the (mental) stance of the Just the same, Universalism and Truth are also transcendental ego of the individual actor is the tied to the science and physics of the remaining basis for human action, praxis/practical processes of phenomenological structuralism. consciousness in a world. However, in the end, Subatomic/chemical particles with phenomenal consequently, the majority of practical properties constitute objects and subjects that consciousness will be a product of an individual are external and internal to the perceiving actor‟s embodiment and the structural human actor who knows them (the objects and reproduction and differentiation of a social class subjects) as both external and internal language game given 1) the determinant nature phenomenon endowed with, and mediated by, of embodiment, form of understanding and linguistic and ideological meanings, stemming from sensibility of the body and brain amidst, the modes of production, of other human actors paradoxically, the indeterminacy of impulses of who presupposed their aggregated existence. embodied subatomic particles and the neuronal The essence, universalism, and Truth of an processes involved in ego-centered communicative object and subject lies in the phenomenal discourse; and 2) the consolidation of power of properties of their subatomic and chemical those who control the material resource particles once demystified and demythologized, framework wherein a society, the social class from linguistic and ideological meanings and language game, is ensconced and the threat that understandings associated with the mode of power (consolidated and constituted via the human production, by the techniques of actions of bodies, mode of production, language, phenomenology and the scientific process. ideology, ideological apparatuses, and communicative discourse) poses to the ontological Be that as it may, for phenomenological security of an aggregated individual actor who structuralism, in keeping with the empiricist chooses (or not) either ready-to-hand or present- logic of Bertrand Russell, “outside of human at-hand to recursively reorganize and reproduce desires there are no moral standards.” Morality the ideals of the society as their practical or moral standards are associated with the consciousness. It should be mentioned that in linguistic and ideological desires (power and response to this latter process, those in power power positions) of those who control the positions who internalize the ideals of the social resources and mode of production of a material structure and recursively (re) organize and resource framework via their language, ideology, reproduce them as their practical consciousness ideological apparatuses, and communicative are in the unready-to-hand stance when they discourse (i.e., social class language game). It encounter alternative forms of being-in-the- (moral practices and statements) constitutes a part world within their social class language game. of the superverse /multiverse as phenomenal They dialectically attempt to reconcile the properties of subatomic particles once practical consciousness of their social class disaggregated as lived-experience. In that language game with the reified practical sense, assuming the phenomenal properties of consciousness of those who have deferred their subatomic particles get recycled between the

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