Claim. Give and receive action has five types distinguished by whether subject and object possess consciousness: bi-conscious (both aware), uni-conscious (only subject aware), unconscious (neither acts consciously), heteronomous (neither has consciousness, both moved by a third party’s will), and contrast/collation type (a conscious observer establishes the relation).
Elaboration. Lee classifies all give-and-receive into five types (B. Subject and Object). (1) Bi-conscious: teacher-students, person-person, human-animal, animal-animal — both sides willingly engage. (2) Uni-conscious: teacher writing on blackboard with chalk — only the subject is conscious. (3) Unconscious: plants and animals exchanging O2 and CO2 — even though plants and animals may have some consciousness, neither party acts consciously for the other. (4) Heteronomous: neither party is conscious; both are induced by a third party’s will — sun and earth following natural law per God’s purpose of creation, or watch parts moving per the watchmaker’s will. (5) Contrast/collation: a conscious observer establishes the relation — artistic creation (artist contrasts colors, shades, sounds), art appreciation (viewer contrasts elements to find harmony), and cognitive judgment (‘this flower is a rose’ contrasts subject and predicate). This last type connects to Unification Epistemology’s account of ‘collation’ between sense content from outside and internal prototypes.
The taxonomy does specific work. The heteronomous type secures a teleological reading of physical law — celestial mechanics is not blind necessity but God-willed give-and-receive between unconscious bodies. The contrast type secures a robust place for human artistic and cognitive activity within the give-and-receive framework — not all give-and-receive is between independent agents; some is constituted by a conscious observer’s act. The unconscious type is conceptually slippery (Lee admits the parties ‘may have consciousness’ yet act unconsciously toward each other), which suggests the taxonomy may be doing more classificatory than explanatory work.
A broader implication: give-and-receive is universal in scope (covers everything from celestial mechanics to art appreciation) precisely because the consciousness requirement is relaxed across these five types. The relation, not the awareness, is what matters.
See also. ut-three-kinds-of-subject-object-relations, ut-correlatives-vs-opposites, five-types-and-seven-characteristics-of-give-and-receive