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Pill Pod 59 - Phenomenology Could Save Your Lifeworld

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The Total Value of the Total View Is an Imaginary View

Each object is the mirror of every other. Even though you can't ever see the whole thing at the same time, you can always imagine what it looks like from the other side. We string together these imaginations and then say, if we could see from everywhere, that would be a complete view. But it's impossible to see from everywhere. That's the point. No dimension our gazes would have to penetrate into the object and drag it through insides and everything about it,. Like almost like an x ray vision. So the total value of the total view is an imaginary view - but still gets this sensation of ike, getting the whole object... It doesn't actually feel like

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