~ All moments of consciousness: something in common No subject

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~ Division: fundamental layer of knowledge is an opposition
“I am conscious of x” and “x” could be the world or my dreams
Or my mood or my concepts or this fact that I am conscious

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~ And “I” might be this brain, or might be caused by this brain
And this brain might instead depend on “I”
But regardless “I” is the thinker, yet “‘I’” can be thought of

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~ You think of your self, “I am conscious,” “I am aware of myself”
There is the I, then the myself: subject/object, knower/known
There is consciousness, and there are its elements: I/x

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~ Then when you know your self, when “I am self-conscious”
Who or what is the knower and who or what is being known?
Your self is known, but the knower is opposed to the known.

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~ Introspect: you are conscious of hopes and doubts
And what is imagined and emoted and remembered
And all this personality of you is known by the unknown knower

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~ And all outside: all touched and all watched in whatever ways
Are done so due to that knower, that knows the objects of space
As similar and as dissimilar, as in common and as divided

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~ This division now though is between all your objects
An opposition not between subject/object, as was first
But between object x versus object y: both known by the subject

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~ This division between objects that burrow versus objects that fly
Those conceived as rising versus those conceived as flowing
Some thought to behave thusly while others behave non-thusly

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~ These: dissimilarities that yet rest on similarities, layered under
Something in common that allows for this abstract division
Burrows or flies, it lives: living or inert, it is real

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~ Real or imagined, it is the known of a knower: object/subject
It must be conceived as the object of a subject
You are only conscious of objects as they are for you, as subject


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~ Yet conception is not perception: abstractions are not tangible
Whether mind is physical or mystical, “I” knows the difference
Thinking of eating an orange versus eating this orange

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~ Seeing the body and world called yours, as eyes meet outsides
Conceiving of this perceiving: the ever-present split abstracted
A closed system keeps pace with itself: circle mapped as spiral

The heart can beat blood to itself. The body can sense itself.

The mind can know itself?

this is the sort of thing youre not supposed to share with the world. Do you have a notebook or a mirror for your caffeinated thoights?

So do you have to volunteer to have your body cut in half and put on display?
looks pretty cool