Res (the Subject matter) has no consciousness until it has created or found the sapiens object re (the object matter), a process which in turn allows res to itself become an object and therefore a re for the object matter re, which through its conscious positioning becomes res.

If you cannot get your brain around this idea try changing res to God or the universe, and re to humanity. Hopefully you can now see the circular, wrapping nature of the experience of being (reality) through the agent of consciousness. Nevertheless, the conscious res, born out of re, is only part of a greater Res which is the intersubjective accumulation, through communication and interaction of all conscious res.

The circular perception is therefore a misleading one, but if we insist on circularity (because it is still the best way of conceiving the process) it must be envisioned as a snowball that constantly accumulates.

Husserl talks of being for a consciousness[i], although he conceived res as being conscious matter whereas we come from the idea that original res is unconscious yet driven by a yearning to obtain what it lacks to create consciousness. Nevertheless, Husserl’s idea is maintained: the universe is being for a consciousness although, in our case, it would be more honestly expressed if we remove the article and say it is ‘being for consciousness’ – for there is no perfect form of consciousness being striven for here, rather just consciousness itself, an accumulating force, difficult to engender and necessarily in need of being preserved.    

[i] Edmund Husserl, IDEAS PERTAINING TO A PURE PHENOMENOLOGY, I, § 49, p.112