[MD] Being-Aware

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Ham]
> 'being' and 'becoming' are defined by most dictionaries as "the state or 
> quality of having or coming into existence."

It would be clearer to say: 'being' is defined as "the state or 
quality of having existence" & 'becoming' is defined as "the state or 
quality of coming into existence."

[Ham]
> That makes it fundamental by definition.

These definitions don't say anything as to what is fundamental.

[Ham]
> "Awareness" is defined as the realization, perception, or apprehension of 
> what we know.

CAUTION:  defining 'awareness' in terms knowledge (so that knowledge
is more fundamental than/prior to awareness) may have unwanted
consequences.

[Ham]
> we know that being exists only because we are aware of it

See, how quickly you've reversed the priority.

[Ham, reconstructed]
> 1) we know that being exists only because we are aware of it

> 2) whatever knows that being exists only because it is aware of it,
> is fundamentally a being-aware. 
> 3) :. each cognizant individual is fundamentally a being-aware.

You have provided no support for 2).

[Ham]
> being in existence takes the form of a sensible (cognizant, 
> knowing) agent or entity who becomes aware of being, the locus of which is 
> his/her self and its knowledge of a diversity of other beings. 

At this point you've stopped defining/analyzing & just resort to assertion. 

[Ham]
> fundamentally Existence = Being-Aware. 

So everything that exists is aware (rocks, plants, the color green,
democracy, etc.)
Craig