“The version of you that everyone else sees is more real than the one inside your head”
Agree
- Impact on world defines actual existence
- Others see us without self-delusion
- Reality is collective perception not private experience
- Identity exists in social space
Disagree
- Internal experience is only authentic reality
- Others see performance not truth
- Consciousness defines existence
- Self-knowledge trumps external perception
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