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The Limits of Language
The original, whatever creature was the first to experience a subjective feeling of self, that creature is lost to us. And I like consciousness, right? The poem in this book 19 Ways of Looking at Wong Way is the same poem translated 19 different times by various authors throughout 1400 years. It's like compressing an image or a bitmap or sound. You do it too many times and it's lossy.