>>12923002I like that and my understanding of it claims itself complete yet I do experience discord and confusion all the time. I will email you but while we're in this thread, let me pose an idea and see what you think. I am actually hoping to accomplish some things someday with AI and consciousness research, and having strong self awareness myself seems huge to have any chance of replicating that sort of thing. So it seems self awareness has multiple levels, these levels are what Id like to know if makes sense to you or you would modify anything for more accuracy to reality as it is. Level 0 is existence as is, I have some lack of understanding leading to lack of certainty if this is one and the same as the final level, my gut says Im stupid to require my brain to produce rational proof and to just accept right now that it is but rationality is core to my communication with others so my gut can get fucked even tho I mostly trust it.
Level 1 is any "thing" that makes contact with another "thing" such as to establish an individual moment of space and time in which such an interaction occurred. Wheres level 0 the selfhood of every object isnt even really asserted any more than all existence, at level 1 objects create "objective proof" that they are seperate
level 2 is when interaction loops back to the self with awareness of it maintained. This is the basis of typical self awareness that almost (maybe) all animals have, it is the first ability to recognize in some non-coincidental way "I am a thing in a world of many things"
Level 3 is where most humans are, which is where interaction, now mediated by awareness (made rational) loops back on itself again and can now use that rationality to ask questions of awareness, questions that can lead to...
Level 4 - the realization of the logical fallacy of separation, leading to a return to identification (I think) with level 0
Hope that doesnt sound too crazy or uneducated, thanks for posting
