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Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
Very Bad Wizards
The Way We Think About Ourself Is So Different Than What We Think of Other People
There are levels of this kind of perspective takingr we we know, and like developmental tatthat there is a certain point where kids start realizing that you might be seeing a scene from a different perspective. That kind of growth makes us sort of start understanding that we are occupying the world with only one perspective,. But it doesn't get to that deep, deep point that you just referred to, that all of phenomenology, all access that you have to anything, is filtered through your perspective. It's no way around that. And he says like, i love this little bit here, he says, please don't that i'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other directedness or
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