Unity and a Solution

When Li Qi awoke from his epiphany, his understanding of the world had risen to another level.

He had already realized that, at its source, this world possessed both "subjective" and "objective" sides.

The origin of the world—whatever this thing truly was—gave rise to both conscious reality and physical reality.

That was why the two levels of pure spirit and pure matter existed.

The so-called subjective and objective were, in truth, two sides of the same source.

All objective things inevitably possessed subjectivity, because every "objective" thing had to pass through subjective consciousness before it could be perceived.

And all subjective things inevitably possessed objectivity, because your own subjectivity was also an objective thing in the eyes of other subjects. Other people's subjective thoughts were, in essence, objectively existent and were not influenced by your subjective consciousness.

Every "object" in the world had both its side of physical reality and its side of spiritual entity.

Everything in this universe—everything!—contained both material attributes and attributes of consciousness.

This answer might not necessarily be correct, but at the very least, every phenomenon Li Qi had observed so far supported it: matter and spirit depended on one another and influenced one another.

The world could be described as a "multi-nature unit." It was neither matter nor consciousness itself, but possessed both attributes at once.

To Li Qi at this moment, matter and consciousness did not exist separately. They were two dimensions of attributes formed from the same fundamental substance.

For example, "a red apple" possessed both the attribute of having the shape of an apple and the attribute of being red in color. The two necessarily existed together within the concept of "a red apple."

This world was such "a red apple." Red and apple could coexist, so spirit and matter did not