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quote:the-boundary-is-the-medium-through-which-all-evidence-flows-but-it-is-not-itself-evidenceable"The boundary is the medium through which all evidence flows, but it is not itself evidenceable."
Pithy statement of the core impossibility result in its first-person experiential implication
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extracted_from(2026) · Lars Sandved-Smith · Chris Fields · Thomas Doctor · Ruben Laukkonen +1
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