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The P-node symbol combines a cone opening right (objective) with a sphere (attending) and the color yellow (representing that toward which the objective mode of attending is stretching—namely, the propositional knowledge accompanying impartially observed experience).
The symbol invovles the conjunction of three elements (pictured to the left): an universal point of view (the red cone pointing down), a focusing mode of attending (the blue sphere), and facts, events, and states of affairs as the object of attention (the green cone pointing up). When the distance between the universal point of view (red cone) and the facts (green cone) is maximized—the impartial distance of objectivity—propositional knowledge may occur. This maximal distance is achieved to the same degree that the mode of attention is focused/narrowed on the details of the facts being attended to, irrespective of the wider context in which those details occur.
Said another way, the P-node symbol combines a cone opening right with a yellow sphere, where both the cone opening right and the yellow sphere diagrammatically combine a mode of experiencing on the one hand with a relationship between experiencer and experienced on the other. In the case of the cone opening right, its apex represents the mode of experiencing (blue sphere), while its base represents the relationship between experiencer (red cone) and experienced (green cone). The colors cancel to white. In the case of the yellow sphere, it takes the shape of experiencing (sphere) and the color of the relationship between experiencer and experienced (red+green).
P as in pater (father), representing the masculine. In this Project, P represents a mode of attending that narrows its focus. This could relate to masculinity insofar as predator/hunters focus on their prey, and as our species evolved, men were typically the hunters (right?).
The letter P may have originally meant mouth. This can be connected with speech and articulating propositional claims about the world, the truth of which must be determined objectively.
