example, while the form Vividness contains the "unity" essence of the form Self, it also brings into existence its own essence of "more than itself". Then, while the form Diversity contains both the "unity" essence of the form Self and the "more than itself" essence of the form Vividness, it also brings into existence its own "diversity" essence. The same then goes when all these essences are passed on further to the form Memory, Memory bringing into existence its own essence of "memorizing". We thus have the first glimpses at transcendence. Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research| December 2017 | Volume 8 | Issue 11 | pp. 864-880 Vișan, C., The Self-Referential Aspect of Consciousness ISSN: 2153-8212 Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research Published by QuantumDream, Inc. www.JCER.com874 Essence and Existence Let's see some more examples from the higher levels of the emergent structure of consciousness and learn better to recognize the essences in a form. Let's take my favorite hierarchy of the written language. And let's take the levels of the forms Shapes, Letters, Words, Sentences. Shapes: essence of "visual objects": entities with spatially defined boundaries. Letters: includes the essence of the Shapes, thus becoming themselves visual objects, and transcendes it, bringing into existence its own essence of "unities of language". Words: includes the essence of the Shapes, being themselves visual objects, includes the essence of the Letters, being themselves unities of language (just more complex than letters), and transcendes them all, bringing into existence its own essence of "carriers of linguistic meaning". Sentences: