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3. Clearly, if relatedness can and must be distinguished from knowing, it also can and must be distinguished from awareness. In that event, it is false to say, as Hartshorne does (DR:141) that "only an adequate awareness can fully measure and contain the being and value of everything." An adequate, or eminent, relatedness can also fully measure and contain the being and value of everything.

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Hartshorne argues that "only an ideally perfect memory could constitute such conservation \[_{+}sc{+}_. of experience, in its full vividness and value\]" ("The Buddhist-Whiteheadian View of the Self and the Religious Traditions" \[#207\]: 301).

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What Hartshorne should argue, then, is that only an ideally all-inclusive concrete reality could constitute the conservation of experience in its full vividness and value; and that this reality may be conceived and symbolized symbolically as "an ideally perfect memory," or "an imperishable and wholly clear and distinct retrospective awareness, which we may call the memory of God" (ibid.).

October 1988