In the case of the reality which we are existence and essence are one and the same, neither is prior. It is the same as seeing that the empty field in which consciousness arises is consciousness, only that the former is always split by having a content and the later not so. This reality then differs from that of all the objects which have enabled us to utilise such concepts, wherein being is potentiality and essence is accident. It does however imply that we cannot be encompassed within any definition of the human, only that there must be a going through the human to the other.