M* (M-Star) elaborates on the basic M5 premise: that objective and subjective types of information exist exist and must be accounted for when discussing any level of mind/matter interaction; that mind and matter themselves are categories that become indistinguishable as one approaches the heart of reality; and that aspects of human consciousness, such as desire and purpose, can extend their influence to such depth, resulting in palpable manifestations in the physical and mental worlds.

At the level of indistinguishability, a given conscious experience or physical event can be thought of as a "seed." The experience or event is a seed before it actually happens. As this seed begins to manifest into reality, it becomes distinguished, it develops separate, complementary objective and subjective qualities. The subjective quality passes through the unconscious level, toward manifestation in the reality of conscious experience; simultaneously, the objective quality passes through the intangible pre-state of matter, toward manifestation as a physical event.

The particular objective and subjective qualities of a seed, as they begin to manifest themselves into reality, may be represented as mathematical "vectors," or hypothetical lines with direction and magnitude. This allows us to talk about a conscious experience or a physical event quantitatively, giving some dimensions to its objective and subjective characteristics. When graphed on paper, the intersecting vector lines can form a kind of star shape—hence M*.

This may be applied to microscopic consciousness/particle interactions, or it can be used as a metaphor to represent circumstances in daily life. For example, we might talk about an experience of meeting a stranger, and using M*, we may be able to model or communicate its qualities. Say you bump into a stranger on a busy street. You apologize for the accident and continue on, without ever seeing the stranger again. There is little personal meaningfulness to this event. As such, in the event's seed state, the objective and subjective vectors developed a certain way: because there was little relevance to conscious experience (no real reason to walk there, and bump into the stranger), the vectors favored what we call "mere coincidence."

On the other hand, say you bump into a stranger on a busy street, stay in touch with them, and end up married soon after. In this situation, the vectors of the event seed developed totally differently. It was very personally meaningful to bump into the stranger; hence the likelihood that consciousness intervention at some seed level caused the meeting is quite high. Conceptually, M* would account for the vectors a) having risen through whatever aspects of unconscious and conscious experience touch on meaningfulness, and b) through whatever tangible aspects were necessary to make you and the stranger collide physically.

(1) http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/pdfs/m3_16(3).pdf