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3.15
The Unique Collective Awareness
  
  We concluded in the previous section that the only possible answer to the riddle "what came first- rules or matter?" is that "rules in theory can exist before matter". We also agreed that this statement is not strictly true, for without matter existence is not valid. For the purpose of this model, we now define these essential rules that can exist "outside the bounds" of existence in reality- we call it UCA, or Unique Collective Awareness.  
3.15.1 UCA- as an idea about an idea of rules existing before matter  
  The use of the three words Unique, Collective and Awareness are deliberately chosen together. Together they form a statement that on the surface appears to make no sense. This will become clearer in the next chapter 4- The nature of paradox.  
  For the moment however, UCA in the context of the riddle "what came first- rules or matter?" is used to signify all possible rules that might exist in theory prior to the existence of matter.  
  In other words, UCA signifies at this point merely an idea about and idea that rules might exist in theory prior to the creation of matter. In the next section, we will investigate the arguments that can be derived from this connection between UCA, existence, creation and matter.  
3.15.2 Summary of understandings of our "theoretical model"  
  Returning to the riddle - what came first rules or matter?, let us summarize the understandings and implications that can now be derived from our "theoretical model".  
 

UCA existed before matter was created

  
  And if you take it one step further- we define the defining moment of creating the universe as the moment the first piece of very small matter was first created, it leaves one only possible conclusion:-  
 

UCA existed before the Universe was created

  
  Theoretically there is nothing stopping awareness existing without matter in dimension. At that point, there would be no dimension, no matter, therefore no laws, no time, no gravity, no motion. Therefore there would be no point trying to drill down by further questioning to ask who created the UCA because in a dimensionless, timeless, non place, non space, non-matter world before creation of the universe, there is only one conclusion:-  
 

UCA has always existed

  
3.15.3 How Could The UCA Exist For All Time Without Dimension?  
  If we continue this line of argument, the next obvious question is how could the UCA exist for all time without dimension, if even time of anything else existed. The answer is- it couldn't. Before the universe was created, UCA had no dimension, no physical features, but it was aware. It was aware there was no universe, no dimension.  
  Let us look at a feature of species. What is the fundamental desire of species? Some may say to procreate and that is right. On first principles it is to exist. Secondly it is the desire to sustain that existence. In other words, the first is to "be", and then "to continue to be."  
  What is the full extent of the meaning of the concept of existence? When we say something exists, what are the criteria for that holding true?  
  Firstly we know that for something to exist it must exist somewhere. If you say to someone "I saw a green car", then the car's existence can be described as something you saw on a particular road, or a particular suburb, or city, or country, or on Earth, or the solar system. You can describe the car, because it has some contextual backdrop. It doesn't matter if whatever we are describing can locate faster than light to an infinite number of places. It is that this must happen somewhere.  
  We can call this dimension. To exist therefore, something must first exist in a dimension.  
  Yet there are more requirements to exist. It is not enough to say that something exists in a dimension- there is the act of observation that acts as a catalyst to saying something exists. In other words, if no one saw a ghost and no recording equipment was in place to record anything to suggest such an event- who is to say that a ghost in a particular location in dimension exists or doesn't exist? We can call this observation -interaction.  
  Another example would be if there was just one person left on Earth. Who would there be to say that this person "existed"? The easiest solution would be if there were two people- both could observe each other and say each other exists.  
  Back to the situation we have surmised before the creation of the universe:- we have said that the UCA existed before the creation of the Universe. However, in light of the question of dimension and interaction this statement is neither true or false. For without the Universe coming into being, we can neither prove, nor disprove the existence of the UCA before the Universe came into being. On this basis, the UCA required the creation of the Universe for the UCA to exist. We can now answer several fundamental questions;-  
 

Before the creation of the Universe, the UCA existed and didn't exist

 
 

To exist, the UCA created the Universe

  
   
 
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