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Let me skip a stone across a sleepy pond: 

You are a mind within a mind.  Perhaps, within yet another mind.  And, possibly, within yet another mind, ad infinitum.  I don't just mean it in a physically structural sense (as would be the case with a set of nesting dolls with smaller ones inside the bigger ones); that's a self-evident given (you are a body within a body within a body).  I mean you are psychologically inside.  A psycho-physical holon (part-whole, part-part, i.e. simultaneously a whole with its own parts, and a part of a greater whole).  In sum, a two-way ripple of objectivity and subjectivity.

Do I stand by this idea?  Not when I sit