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There’s a particular line that stuck out to me upon rereading Belief in Belief on LessWrong:“Fleeting mental images, unspoken flinches, desires acted upon without acknowledgement—these account for as much of ourselves as words.”There’s an extreme form of self-consciousness that involves treating your mental space as something accessible by other people: having a thought, and then immediately envisioning your thought being reacted to by people you know. You might think something scandalous and th
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