To see yourself as
others do.
That could easily
happen
In an impossible world.
So if you rented out
another brain,
That brain would need to
vacate.
And your own would
take over.
But then you wouldn't
be “seeing yourself as others do”.
You'd just be fusing
two selves into one.
There's no first-person
purity or truth.
Acts of
introspection
Exist in a gauze of
theory.
There's even a veil of
perception
Between your self
And
your own private items.
So, perhaps, as
classical introspecters,
We don't see the wood
for the trees.
All this points in the
direction of third persons.
Third persons may know
you better
Than you know yourself.
No Cartesian
indubitability here, then.
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