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What is awareness then? Do you see my point? Either you end up with a circle of references or an infinite regress of definitions to describe the ineffable. It’
by chongli 3y ago
What is awareness then? Do you see my point? Either you end up with a circle of references or an infinite regress of definitions to describe the ineffable.
It’s the problem of qualia [1]. They can’t really be defined, only pointed at. My experience of seeing the colour red is non-universalizable. Thus the word red can only point at it, it can’t describe or define it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia