Self-Knowledge
Overthink
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What Is the Nature of Self Knowledge?
i don't really believe that there is a fast and hard line between memory and imagination, because i do think all memory is fundamentally imaginative. And so maybe we can just think about those two us together, that we imagine slash remember, as ways of creating alternative worlds to test our desires. So this isn't an issue about our access or lack of distance from the self. It is the question of whether the self is a thing at all. Even if we could get the right distance on ourselves, we might find that the self is not a thing in the way that a cup is a thing.
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