0038 I see what is happening_3a, I ask, “What does this mean to me_3b?”.

This business about phantasms_2b is crucial.  If our mind-dependent beings, our phantasms_2b, are to stand the trial of the suprasubjective_1c, then their symbols_2b must be true_1c.  Plus, they must be able to be subjectively_1a communicated.  They must be witnessed as things and events_2a.

0039 There is a profoundly biological reason for this.  Our genus evolves by cooperating in teams.  Each team is like the cat.  It disposes privations to others, in order to achieve its perfection.  One team hunts rabbits.  Another team digs up tubers.  Human teams hunt and gather, all in the pursuit of their fullness of being.  The One Who Gives, Without Us Knowing Why, provides in many different ways.

Just as metabolism resides in every living being, the One Who Gives, resides in each social circle.  As noted in Comments on Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar’s Book (2014) Thinking Big, the One Who Gives is an object that brings all teams into relation. Otherwise, teams might come into conflict. Like metabolism, this relational object stands undifferentiated from the organization objectives of each team.  This relational object sustains them all.

0040 We choose our teams based on disposition and natural abilities.  Or maybe, our teams choose us.  After all, if a prosperous team lasts long enough, generation after generation, our kind will adapt to its challenges.  The tasks will become more intuitively natural.  Evolutionary psychologists will call these adaptations, “mental modules”.

0041 In the Lebenswelt that we evolved in, there is no contradiction between the phantasm_2b simultaneously touching base with the potential of truth_1c and the potential of subjective agreement_1a.  That is because hand talk_2a and hand-speech talk_2a image and indicate their referents_1a.  A referent_1a defines the objectivity_1b of each gesture word_2a.  The referent_1a is also suprasubjectively evident_1c.  If it_1a were not real_1c, it_1a could not be imaged or indicated_2a.

In our current Lebenswelt, there is a contradiction.  Speech-alone_2a talk is purely symbolic.  It_2a does not image or point to anything_1c.  So, the phantasm_2b suffers a privation, opening the door to a condition where the potential of subjective agreement_1a may be actualized without the simultaneous realization of the potential consilience_1cunderlying the One Who Gives, Without Us Knowing Why_3c.