I don't agree : I've had an experience where I was
1. Feeling the pleasure of seeing something.
2. Saying to myself "I know why I like that, it's because when I was
younger," and so on
and the pleasure wasn't lost, it was just different, a different
kind of pleasure : both feeling the beauty and knowing why this particular
thign should appeal to me broung another type of experience
which was actually highly pleasurable itself !
In trying to quantify and qualify the experience, you
>>become an observer of yourself (consciousness) and then cease to be a
>>participant in the event. Thus robbing yourself of it.
I think we can be both. Viewing oneself feeling of love for
somebody doesn't remove the feeling, does it ?
Viewing life as a computation doesn't remove the beauty of it, does it ?
Viewing love as a complex system of chemical changes doesn't make the
feeling any less real, does it ?
>Neurotic self-observation can detract from life experience, but healthy
>Level-3 self-awareness can add to it.
Bear in mind that Level 3 does seem part of the norm. Judging from
the norm of people with sane minds, I am crazy myself.
Yash.