The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in the lab by researchers. If we allow the mental its own existence as a category disjoint from the physical, we will never be able to get it back in.
Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about_oneself?A. No, it is more difficult. If you become objective to yourself you can_see other people objectively, but not before, because before that it will_all be coloured by your own views, attitudes, tastes, by what you like_and what you dislike. To be objective you must be free from it all. You_can become objective to yourself in the state of self-consciousness: this_is the first experience of coming into contact with the real object.
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Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about_oneself?A. No, it is more difficult. If you become objective to yourself you can_see other people objectively, but not before, because before that it will_all be coloured by your own views, attitudes, tastes, by what you like_and what you dislike. To be objective you must be free from it all. You_can become objective to yourself in the state of self-consciousness: this_is the first experience of coming into contact with the real object.
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