5.1.4. The first understanding
The preceding points established THE FIRST SENSATION, the polarity and OBSERVATION. But observation alone is not understanding. For KNOWING to arise, experience must be organised as a stable concept that can be recognised, related and retained.
This section describes the decisive transition from pure experience to understanding. Here E1 arises as the first stable conceptualisation of what has been experienced. With it, THE FIRST CHANGE, THE FIRST RELATION and THE FIRST DISTANCE also emerge as understood quantities within KNOWING.
At the same time, a new challenge arises: understanding now exists, but that which understands is not yet understood. This leads on to THE SELF-MIRRORING, in which BEING encounters its own understanding and emerges as KNOWING. This establishes the first complete structure of understanding upon which all subsequent relation, recognition, knowledge formation and emergence is built.
