ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the natural right that divides into two elements existential and essential power. Existential consciousness is the natural right of a singular thing, and pertains to the affective right of a thing, which is its psychological substructure. Essential consciousness is the realm of thing's ethical activity in the world. The essence of existential consciousness was not hiding in some transcendent attribute until called upon by God, it was there formally in situ at the relevant time by reason of the arrangement of the machines and composition of their modes. The chapter formalizes the division between existential and essential consciousness according to the cause/effect asymmetry. It explains the genealogical linkage between Spinoza's theory of the conscious stone and Seneca's example of the bridge constituted by transition. The chapter examines how once constituted the machine can undergo transitions and how this is linked to the passions of pleasure and pain.
