
The manifold or multidimensional vagaries of the self taken to be individual, with its various modes of reflexivity and alterity has a more than suggestive relationship to a complex topology which, much like a Klein bottle, cannot be resolved in any intuitive space - in part just because the imagination of any such space in an intrinsic part of such a self by way of its free self-consciousness. If you take the position of 'global' awareness, then you might imagine the latter as a space with sufficient dimensions to embed the former, in the same way as the Klein bottle can be embedded in 4-dimensional Euclidean space. Such an intuition, however, implicitly takes awareness not merely as a kind of space but as a flat one, that is, one in which every circuit can be contracted to a point so that there are no paradoxical re-entries. It is enough to accept the connotations of the term 'global'. This is to take things too far. Global, perhaps relative to the convolutions of individual mind, but these are no more than appearances. If awareness were a kind of space then there is no reason for it to be flat or lacking any sort of transcendental self in incomprehensively higher dimensions. But then the same process could be repeated ad infinitem. At some point the notion of awareness as any kind of space will have to be given up, so why not at the very start.
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