An object or matter in the world can be purely given, unexpected and not prefigured in any way and no yielding up its secrets, its laws, easily or at all - that is basic to the world. The world itself, however, which does not arise in the world but in consciousness, like all content from the point of view of experiencing, is the opposite - pure givenness is impossible, the phenomenon must be constructed in order to be experienced at all, and hence must have a transparent genesis all the way back to the shared origin. That this is far from evident is because all our attention is directed outwards and our metaphysics is based on matters and things.