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                            %SUBJECTIVE COOPERATION 860719

     Human cooperation is not objective in  its  essential
nature,   although it  may  involve objects  and objective
behavior.      Human cooperation entails  many  subjective
realities   as  it  involves  subjects  interacting   with
subjects in subjective ways.

     Human motivation,  fears,  decisions and actions  are
neither  purely subjective nor purely objective in nature.
To pretend otherwise  is  self  deception  which  is  very
subjective in nature.   It is ironic that people dedicated
to purely objective behavior should pretend in cooperative
ways to  be  engage  in  purely objective behavior;   such
pretense being highly subjective/non-objective in nature.

     Effective cooperation is undermined by pretense, even
if it is cooperation in pretense.  Agreement regarding the
nature  of  objective reality is not known,  not  real  to
humans.  It is only  through such cooperation that  humans
come to  realize the nature of objective reality.  Do they
create  the  reality,  or do they discover  what  is  real
previous  to  their  realization  of  it?    What  is  the
difference between the two alternatives?   Are there other
alternatives?

     Human cooperation can seek to integrate objective and
subjective  perceptions.    Human cooperation can also  be
part  of  games of mutual self deception in  which  humans
disintegrate   the   connections  between  objective   and
subjective   perceptions.     Not   all   cooperation   is
integrative  in  nature.    Not all  agreements  point  to
equally real realities.   Some "realities"  exist only  be
virtue  of  human  cooperation  to perceive them as  real;
often   with   integrative  fruits,   other   times   with
disintegrative tragedy.

     Ultimately reality is unlikely to be purely objective
or  purely subjective,  unless it  is radically  different
from the processes by which humans seek,  gain,  share and
make use of knowledge.   On what grounds are we to believe
that the ultimate knowledge would differ in kind  from the
mixture  of  objective  and  subjective  cognition   which
pervades all human cognitive processes.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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