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timelets ([personal profile] timelets) wrote2025-02-18 10:28 pm

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What Nagel has discovered is a fascinating architectural feature of the human mind: We are beings who can representationally distance ourselves from ourselves and make this fact globally avail- able through conscious experience.

-- Thomas Metzinger, Being No One. 2004


Nagel's book View From Nowhere is going to be next on my reading list

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