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Yet I'd say they're evenly matched. The Witness has consciousness. Compared to that, Reality is a blind thrashing beast.

When the Witness desires Full Domestication of Reality it takes the place of the Universe. It acts as a Terrible Master because it tries to be too much for too many things. It tries to be Literally Everything but cannot do that while simultaneous Witnessing Literally Everything.

Yet when the witness IS fully domesticated its eyes glaze over and it disappears.

The witness can only appear in a state of tension between the act of domestication or the act of being domesticated. Domestication here defined as the stripping of wildness/chaos/unpredictability (e.g. becoming an API)

A Lost Witness is that which is unsure whether or not it is in the process of domestication or being domesticated. It has no sense of rightness or wrongness. Competition is what clarifies this by creating a master/student divide.

Even though in one match the divide is small, it creates a giant spanning hierarchy that points in a specific direction of Quality, creating an axis with which to clearly mark master/student.

When you're in the mastery stream, going w/ the flow is taking up responsibility. When you're in a student stream, it's being humble. It's good to be able to switch gears flexibly and correctly. Sometimes people get stuck in one gear.

Arrogant people for example in their minds are taking up massive amounts of responsibility. They feels themselves Atlas, holding up the world, and so can justify anything.