Metaphysics of Superjectivism

Persons

• God – one God, existing in three coeternal, consubstantial divine persons. The maximal superject.
• States – each state is a distinct person with its own body, soul and spirit.
• Human persons – each living human organism from conception to death is a person. Identical twins, chimeras and braindead humans are all persons.
• Animals, AI, companies and all other non-human entities are not persons, ever.

Superjects, subjects and objects

• A superject is a person who originates an echo – the source of a specific act of will.
• A subject is a person who is on the receiving end of that echo in a given interaction.
• An object is any non-personal part of reality: matter, animals, tools, landscapes, technology, etc.
• These roles are contextual. The same human can be superject in one moment and subject in the next.

Echo and ownership

• An echo is a single-origin blow of will into reality: one concrete pattern of influence from one superject.
• Echoes have single ownership: responsibility traces back to one will as the ultimate source.
• If other people carry out your will because you exerted it into them (for example, a soldier following a direct command, or a supporter clearly enacting your goal), the resulting event is still your echo.
• If they run their own thought → choice → action pipeline in line with their own natural values, the echo is theirs, even if you influenced them earlier.

Lucidity

• The lucidity faculty of the spirit discerns:
  • natural values vs imposed values, and
  • your own will vs foreign wills pushing on you.
• Lucidity allows a person to know whether they are truly acting as a superject or merely extending someone else’s echo.

The triune God

• There is one maximal person: God, the ultimate superject who created reality and all values.
• God is one God existing in three coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: traditionally named Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• These divine persons are distinct centres of consciousness and will, yet perfectly harmonious and of one nature. To creation, God’s echo appears as a single united will.
• God designed a single deterministic world-history. Given the total circumstances, every person’s choice is fixed – but it is still their own expression of their values and spirit.

God’s echo

• God’s echo is reality itself: that this world exists rather than another, with these persons, this history, and these laws.
• God’s will always “wins”: nothing can ultimately override the structure He laid out. Human and state echoes are nested within the divine echo.

Why triune, not solitary

Within Superjectivism, it is more coherent for the maximal person to be inherently relational rather than solitary:

• Persons naturally value rich personal relation (love). In Superjectivism, love means extending one’s identity to include another.
• If God were a solitary person, love would depend on creation: God would need creatures to realise this value. A tri-personal God has intrinsic relation and love within His own being.
• Three divine persons give the minimal, non-trivial relational structure (I–You–We) without dissolving personhood into an impersonal crowd.
• Thus Superjectivism identifies the maximal person as the triune Christian God.

Human persons

• A human person is any living human organism from conception to death. This includes embryos, fetuses, infants, adults, identical twins, chimeras and braindead humans.
• Each human has:
  • Body – the biological organism with its brain, senses and physical capabilities.
  • Soul – a “library” of knowledge, emotions, goals and value hierarchies.
  • Spirit – the decision-maker, with rationality, lucidity and compatibilist free will.
• The spirit runs a thought → choice → action pipeline: ideas are formed, evaluated against values, a choice is made, and an action is taken that projects an echo into reality.
• Humans are always persons; they are superjects whenever their presence or actions have real effects on reality.

State persons

• A state is also a person – not a group mind, but a distinct superject with its own structure.
• The state has:
  • Body – its territory (land, sea, airspace), physical infrastructure and non-personal resources. The population consists of separate human persons in contract with the state, not parts of the state’s body.
  • Soul – its constitution and foundational law: the stable structure of its values and rules.
  • Spirit – the government as the state’s decision organ: emperor, mayors, ministers and officials acting in their official roles.
• Legal changes of government under the same constitutional order keep the state-person the same. A full constitutional revolution with a new identity and name marks the death of one state and the birth of another.
• Citizens are not parts of the state. They are separate human persons who have a contract with the state and stand as subjects of its echoes.

God and created persons

• God is never a subject in the sense of being overpowered by other wills. All created echoes operate within the deterministic structure He set.
• Humans and states are real superjects: their choices and echoes are genuinely theirs, even though God knew and allowed them from the outset.

State–human relations

• In a single action, the state may be superject (issuing a law) and the citizen a subject (obeying or clashing with that law).
• Ideally, citizen and state are in a mutually beneficial relation: legal protection and order in exchange for functional membership and contribution.
• State echoes are generated when the state’s spirit (government) acts in line with its soul (constitution) through its body (territory and infrastructure).

Human–human relations

• Between humans, one is superject in an act (teaching, helping, attacking, persuading), the other is subject (being taught, helped, attacked, persuaded).
• If a person acts purely as an extension of another’s will, the echo belongs to the originator. If they act from their own recognised values, the echo is theirs.

State–state relations

• States interact as persons: through diplomacy, sanctions, war and treaties.
• Each such event is a collision of echoes: each state trying to push reality in the direction of its own values and interests.
• Who “wins” historically is determined by which echo proves stronger in reality. Metaphysical evaluation (good/evil) is based on whether each state acted in line with its own values.