You said: Being unaware of something is orthogonal to being affected by it. You truly believe that being aware of something and being affected my that same

You said: Being unaware of something is orthogonal to being affected by it. You truly believe that being aware of something and being affected my that same thing are independent and uncorrelated? So if a bomb goes off, my awareness of it is not at all dependent on, or correlated with, whether or not I was in the blast zone (and thus affected by it)? Edit: The parent has edited their comment since my reply to be more specific. I'm not sure I agree, but it's now not as obviously wrong as I outlined here.