The Monopoly of Consciousness: Beyond the First-Person Perspective
Dedicated to the family Garland Introduction: The Invisible Wall There is a fundamental isolation in the human experience. We are locked behind a singular set of eyes, processing the world through a private internal monologue that never stops. This creates a natural, albeit dangerous, illusion: the idea that we are the protagonists of reality while everyone else is merely part of the scenery. When we see a stranger in distress or a news report of a distant crisis, that wall…