Transition21 | Terranaut – Alan Watts @tinylinkCC | Uploaded January 2017 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
..and this is happening to the men who go out into space.

"Self-consciousness is an echo in our heads. An echo of what we do but wouldn't be aware of doing it if there wasn't an echo. When you see yourself in a mirror, that mirror is a visual echo of your face. And so self-consciousness is neurological resonance.

Now you know how troublesome resonance can get if it's not properly worked out. You can get echo's that just won't stop, such as echo's in a cave, that's very confusing. Now that's the sort of snarl that self-consciousness can get into. We call it anxiety."

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