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"hyper-awareness" can mean many things. there's a kind that happens when you are lost in a city. there's a kind that happens when your sense of pattern is disrupted and you focus on a particular feature of a phenomenon. there's a kind that happens--all the time---when you are engaged in an action that involves what they call "pre-semantic consciousness"---for me, playing the piano is all about this. what you're talking about is a projection as to viewpoint, an imaginative empathetic movement based on the assumption that other people are also engaged in interactions that are like your own, so that you particular viewpoint becomes one of a host of possible viewpoints. from there, you go travelling, have an adventure.
if you want to make this a philosophical thread, you might wonder about how your ordinary sense of perceptual scale happens, what explains it, so you can think about how it might alter or deform in certain situations
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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