ABSTRACT

The logic for Most Fundamental Rules about humans is like that of the ontological proof of the existence of God. In seeking the Most Fundamental Rules of Human Whatever (thought, perception, apperception) people always lay the groundwork for something else, including the opposite, to be articulated. The only way people can get beyond people is by using, as counters, entities that are not human: the atoms, microbes, and astral bodies of science. The problem with religions, all of which at least gesture at what allow people to do all that they do, is the same as the problem with articulating rules of being human using Reason. People make the abstractions about humans for specific reasons in a particular set of circumstances; something close to these precise reasons has to occur again for them to be useful or relevant.