From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-26, Richmond  wrote:   
      
   >> Make sense. And yet "knowing" that seems about as relevant   
   >> to my experience of life as knowing how I balance on a bike   
   >> improves the experience of the ride: it doesn't. In fact,   
   >> entertaining that "knowing" while riding actually steals   
   >> attention away from aspects of the ride, e.g. the sights,   
   >> the feel of the airflow, the feel of the terrain, etc.   
   >   
   > Perhaps, but the thread is not about your experience of   
   > life and how to improve it, it is about the philosophy   
   > of consciousness.   
      
   I think a common misunderstanding (which your "is not"   
   suggests to my subjective point of view) is that there's   
   some objective point of view. But I've no idea how I could   
   know it given I've private meanings/contexts for words,   
   and can only know *about* some alleged objective point of   
   view from an utterly separate subjective point of view.   
      
   It's mildly embarassing for sounding so damned selfish,   
   but there are many times when a thread *to me* IS about   
   my experience, and I think it reasonable to assume others   
   feel/thinking similarly at times.   
      
   It's a funny pickle: the harder I try to be objective   
   or "align with an alleged objective point of view", the   
   more I'm asserting a subjective point of view - as though   
   attempting to draw conceptually nigh faithfully leads to   
   winding up farther away.   
      
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