Awareness vs Knowing. That's cleared up how self-knowing is possible without Paradox (with ChatGPT)

We make a distinction between knowing of things, where someone knows about something else. John has learned a lot about cars.

But then then there is awareness of the world, which comes from itself. Awareness does not need to go to the back office to get rubber stamped. It works by itself. So we say that it is self-knowing.

But that causes the wrong idea. Because self-knowing sounds like it is a subject who has a clear vision of itself as object. Exactly like when we look in the mirror and understand the reflection is our self. We get a neat story and mental buzz from thinking we are look at our self (we are not).

When we are aware it is called self-awareness just because it doesn't need anything else. There is no loop. It doesn't come out and go back in again. It is just awareness all by itself as it is: happy in its own skin.

So while nothing here hasn't been said a million times I argue out some misunderstandings of mine in the ChatGPT session:

https://chatgpt.com/share/68ea5948-f910-8003-b8d2-4d71a443bb20