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Fixation and Selection (IV) — Bilateral Non-Doubt Forecloses Self-Awareness / 固与选(四)——双向不疑封闭自意识

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This series (Fixation and Selection) investigates the same phenomenon within each round of the Life Cycle Table: the fourth step (fixation) forecloses the first step (selection). This essay unfolds Round 4 (13DD–16DD): how bilateral non-doubt (16DD) forecloses self-awareness (13DD). Round 4's foreclosure is personal — external 16DD (the family of origin being every person's first encounter) precedes the individual's 13DD; self-awareness emerges within fixation, and emergence itself is negation. This essay distinguishes four kinds of pain — cultivation pain (unfulfillment, intolerability) and colonization pain (foreclosure, inescapability) — and four responses: covert pursuit, confrontation, covert forking, escape. Round 4's unique feature is reflexivity: the chisel knows the construct is foreclosing it. 16DD is irrevocable; there is no bridge. The way out lies in living mutual recognition — maintaining 13DD's vitality through sustained mutual chiseling between concrete persons. Self-as-an-End.

本系列(固与选)追问生命周期表每一轮内部的同一个现象:第四步(固)封闭第一步(选)。本篇展开第四轮(13DD-16DD):双向不疑(16DD)如何封闭自意识(13DD)。第四轮的封闭是个人的——外部的16DD(原生家庭是每个人遇到的第一个)先于个体的13DD而在,个体在固的内部涌现自意识,涌现本身就是对固的否定。本篇区分四种痛——涵育的痛(求不得、不可忍)和殖民的痛(不可选、不可逃)——以及四种回应:偷偷求、对抗、偷偷fork、逃。第四轮独有的特征是反身性:凿知道构在封闭它。16DD不可撤回,没有小桥。出路在活的mutual承认中——在具体的人与人之间通过持续互凿保持13DD的活性。Self-as-an-End。

Keywords: Fixation and Selection, bilateral non-doubt, self-awareness, family of origin, cultivation, colonization, mutual recognition, Self-as-an-End

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Resource type: Preprint

Language: Chinese / English (bilingual)

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  • Is part of: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18808585 (Self-as-an-End Theory Series)
  • Is continued by: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18859363 (Fixation and Selection I)
  • Is continued by: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18859393 (Fixation and Selection II)
  • Is continued by: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18859427 (Fixation and Selection III)
  • References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18779382 (Philosophy as Subject-Activity)
  • References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18818107 (Life Cycle Table Upper Volume)
  • References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18818149 (Life Cycle Table Middle Volume)
  • References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18818177 (Life Cycle Table Lower Volume)
  • References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18829136 (AI Consciousness Impossibility Theorem)

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