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Because the possible and the actual collapse at the level of Meta-Consciousness, every genuine possibility is actual in some mode. However, modes of actuality are not equal. The main modes include:
Because the possible and the actual collapse at the level of Meta-Consciousness, every genuine possibility is actual in some mode. However, modes of actuality are not equal. The main modes include:


{| class="wikitable"
====Absolute actuality====               
Status: Self-grounding total actuality
Example: Meta-Consciousness


| ! Mode of actuality !! Examples !! Status     |  |                                                      |  |                                    |
====Noetic or intellectual actuality====
| ---------------------------------------------- | - | ---------------------------------------------------- | - | ---------------------------------- |
Status: High conscious self-articulation
| Absolute actuality                            |  | Meta-Consciousness                                  |  | Self-grounding total actuality    |
Examples: First Intellect, Active Intellect, higher intellects
| -                                              |  |                                                      |  |                                    |
 
| Noetic or intellectual actuality              |  | First Intellect, Active Intellect, higher intellects |  | High conscious self-articulation  |
====Formal-principial actuality====
| -                                              |  |                                                      |  |                                    |
Status: Principles of determinacy
| Formal-principial actuality                   |  | Identity, unity, equality, relation                 |  | Principles of determinacy          |
Examples: Identity, unity, equality, relation
| -                                              |  |                                                      |  |                                    |
 
| Cosmic or world-order actuality               |  | Observable universe, other universes                 |  | Coordinate-fields of manifestation |
====Cosmic or world-order actuality====
| -                                              |  |                                                      |  |                                    |
Status: Coordinate-fields of manifestation
| Physical or object-level actuality             |  | Rocks, stars, bodies, water                         |  | Manifest coordinate-structures    |
Examples: Observable universe, other universes
| -                                              |  |                                                      |  |                                    |
 
| Inhabited-perspectival actuality               |  | Humans, animals, finite selves                       |  | Lived centres of consciousness    |
====Physical or object-level actuality====
| -                                              |  |                                                      |  |                                    |
Status: Manifest coordinate-structures
| Imaginal or dream actuality                   |  | Dreams, symbols, fictional worlds                   |  | Dependent lower-order fields      |
Examples: Rocks, stars, bodies, water
| -                                              |  |                                                      |  |                                    |
 
| Propositional or mathematical-object actuality |  | Propositions, circles, theorems                      |  | Non-inhabited formal articulations |
====Inhabited-perspectival actuality====
| }                                              |  |                                                      |  |                                    |
Status: Lived centres of consciousness
Examples: Humans, animals, finite selves
 
====Imaginal or dream actuality====
Status: Dependent lower-order fields
Examples: Dreams, symbols, fictional worlds
 
====Propositional or mathematical-object actuality====
Status: Non-inhabited formal articulations
Examples: Propositions, circles, theorems


This table does not describe separate substances. It describes modes of one consciousness.
This table does not describe separate substances. It describes modes of one consciousness.