Can you ever see the world without your own viewpoint getting in the way?

Nagel's 'view from nowhere' is the impossible but useful ideal of a fully objective standpoint, stripped of the particular perspective of whoever is doing the looking. He argued subjective experience is just as real as any objective fact, so a complete picture of the world has to make room for both your point of view and everyone else's, not just one or the other.

— Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere — 1986
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