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“John Deely (2) The first clearing occurred on the scene at the originary event. The originary appetitive object was transformed into a transcendental thing. For the first time, it was known as existing apart from the appetition of the proto-hominids. This transcendental consciousness was a consciousness of God, but of God as known before the Fall . The Fall is the theological term I use to precisely designate the anthropological event of the original human choice to initiate the first sparagmos ; as Generative Anthropology (GA) has seen, the Fall is from the exchange of the sign on the originary scene to the sparagmos, i.e., to the origin of the communal meal. (3) This original human choice was quintessentially human because the very choice presupposes cognition of the originary scene. To be sure, as it is so cognized today, the source of transcendental existence was cognized in the originary event as that upon which the physical universe as a whole was dependent, i.e., an ultimate source independent of all individual appetite. Yet at the originary event, this cognition was not merely of a source of existence (“whatever that might be,” as our finite reason must confess, ignorant of that source’s essence while unavoidably dependent on its existence for our own existence).”

— Eric Gans, Original Sin and Generative Anthropology · Fall 2007 · Anthropoetics