Tuesday, March 11, 2025

React: Overthink Podcast Episode 125

I left the following comment on the youtube video of the Overthink Podcast episode 125:

Personhood, self, and subject are not only indispensable, but there is nothing that gets more indispensable than these properties. [The property of personhood, selfhood, or subjectivity.] Not only do we have evidence of the self, but we have the strongest possible evidence: direct access, or Russellian acquaintance. Often when something is obvious we say it's "Right in front of you." The self is that which is necessary for there to be a "right in front of you" in the first place. You cannot possibly get more "right in front of you" than the self; it is the front in front of all fronts. To put it candidly, any theory that requires you to reject the notion of the self (or mind, consciousness, person, subject, or soul 
 the self-evident aspect common to these terms), not only can you know that that theory is false, but you can know it with certainty.

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