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Under conditions of pure conversation, no one has time for anything less than a completely unambiguous system of references and a purely extensional presentation and self-presentation. The present theory may serve as the required index or meta-index for such a cooperating society. The list of rules or constitutive expectations outlined here can be applied effectively to any social utterance or self-presentation if and only if everyone concerned is willing and able to do so. As a result of this a priori and transcendental index, any utterance or self-presentation in pure conversation will be semantically insensitive, and if not so on the face of it, will be subject to a further explicit index that everyone present uniformly applies and accepts or feels they have accepted. Of course, in the absence of total technological control by means of cameras, sensors and perhaps unrealistically sophisticated computer programming, such uniformity must be left to some very subtle intuitive standards. But regardless of the standards ultimately accepted, the outcome of such a condition can only be the universal experience of social transparency and truth, in short, the experience of a spiritual or cosmic reality.