[MD] Direct Experience

[Platt Holden]

Ham, Gav, DMB, Ron et al:

My head is still spinning from the responses to my questions about 
consciousness. A better word than "consciousness" or "experience" seems to 
be "awareness." Also some posit  the need for a "knower" of awareness, also 
called a "locus" of awareness. 

Two points. 1) I don't see any difference between a "knower" and a "self, 
as in "self-conscious. 2) "Consciousness" has no verb form with "I" (or 
self) as the subject. We don't say "I conscious" or "I aware," but we do 
say "I experience" and "I sense."

Finally, I quickly descend into infinite regress when I try to identify the 
the "Knower" of the "Knower" of awareness. I'm beginning to wonder if 
Pirsig's notion of experience as reality leaves something out. Indeed, 
doesn't intellect always leave something out?

Thanks for your replies.
Platt