essence turn that other mind capacity back in on ourselves. We were able to think of ourselves as if we were an other mind, as if we were an external kind of structure. And it's this interiorization of what began as an exterior relationship to the world that probably took a great lesson in the basis of this sense of subjectivity in the first place. I don't fully follow that last part. First of all, what are we talking about when we say consciousness number one? And where you lost me was in the turning consciousness in on itself, that somehow the human version of consciousness or expression of it is somehow different than that of, let's say, a predator or a prey. It is. I mean, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make it obscure. That's fine. But so yeah, first of all, what do we mean when we talk about consciousness and then what is that distinction? So consciousness in this sense would be this experience of one's own, this sort of subjective experiences of one's own thoughts. So thinking (26/42)
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