To Be Seen
To be seen is to be recorded. It is to exist in a realm other than your
own mind. When viewed by an observer, a new subjective impression of
the being you think of as yourself is formed in the mind of the observer
and is thought of as different from what the observer thinks of as
itself. You become another. A new subjective you comes into existence.
This other you is not the you that you know. It is an entirely
different creature, formed out of the incomplete information about you
that the observer has. While you may think of yourself as bright and
cheerful, the observer may read you as being sullen and unhappy. This
sullen, unhappy version of you comes into real existence within the
subjective reality of the observer. It is related to you as you know
yourself only indirectly and incompletely. There are many of you in the
world, but you can only ever know one of them.