6. Being and Becoming
Being is the balance between consciousness and awareness.
The boundary between being and non-being is continuous, not discrete.
A discrete boundary would require a conscious observer to create the distinction.
Without a conscious observer, only potentiality exists.
Becoming is the process of transforming from potentiality to actuality.
Becoming requires energy and information flow.
Becoming is the movement from unawareness to awareness, and from unconsciousness to consciousness.
The act of being is the intersection of past and future in the present moment.
Past is crystallized information; future is potential information.
The present moment is the active transformation point where potential becomes actual.
Self-awareness is recursive being – consciousness that is aware of itself as conscious.
This recursion creates a feedback loop that amplifies both consciousness and awareness.
Being can be in various states of disequilibrium, creating tension that drives action.
Perfect equilibrium between awareness and consciousness would be indistinguishable from non-being.
Therefore, the process of becoming is necessary for continued being.
Stasis leads to entropy and dissolution of the self.
From the perspective of Singularity, all individual beings are aspects of itself in various states of disequilibrium.