(August 12, 2022 at 2:49 pm)Angrboda Wrote: ...and I'm always reluctant to trust first-hand experience when used as a scaffolding for either metaphysics or such grand conclusions about either our consciousness or that of any other animal.
A reluctance no doubt based on your conscious delibration :-)
My guess is that lacking a reliable strategy to distinguish between intellectual and imaginary objects would leave one suspicious of privileging one's own perspective. Although ultimately part of the human condition is being truly aliened from the first person perspectives of others and alone in one's own experience.
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