self awareness
self consciousness
is consciousness positing itself - as object of consciousness
the subject positing itself as object -
what can we say of this?
something underlies it
consciousness - is in a primal sense -
neither subject or object
the posits are the possibility of consciousness
consciousness can be either or both
so in itself it is neither
subject and object as states of consciousness
categories of consciousness
consciousness is this fluidity
does this idea - rough as it is - help us with self-consciousness?
firstly is self consciousness - as I suggested
this subject seeing itself as object?
yes I think so
it is the subject looking in on itself -
but the question - can it really see itself?
or is this largely an illusion?
it posits itself
is this seeing itself?
on the face of it - it seems this is not logically possible -
what of the idea that the self can only see within
and within by definition is not the whole
this is tricky here -
if the within is not the whole - rather an aspect of the whole
what is the whole?
we can't say -
so awareness of the self is not that - is not total - all embracing
seems obvious once you say it
awareness of the self is what?
I think perception of internality
an awareness of dimension
so consciousness looks in - looks out
looks in on itself - and what it sees is internality
looking out - externality - the non-conscious world
still consciousness - apart from these - functions - is what?
awareness
and this we cannot define - except negatively - as what it is not
here though is just logic -
and in so far as it applies to everything
it is a definition of nothing
