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263 - Bernardo Kastrup - The Fall Into Meta-Consciousness

The Symbolic World

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Is There a Free for All?

I see your point but I think you miss the one criteria we have to define the boundaries of us as individual agents with private conscious in their life of their own. So that there is a objective criterion for defining the boundaries of the human being and that is what you register as an experience when something interacts with it and what you don'tregister as an experience When something interacts with It. If I pierce the chair and sitting on with a needle I don't feel it but if I pierce my arm I do feel it. Yeah if a photon in my study hits the wall behind me I don't see it but if it hits my retina I do experience it. There are no living cells

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