noticing and occlusion

Being good at introspecting deeply and being good at fucking and killing are mutually exclusive skill sets. In times or evolutionary yore the saber tooth lions ate all the monkey philosophers. Really ... think about it ... there must have been great evolutionary pressure in favor of monkeys who's mechanisms of consciousness were occluded from them. Of course, these days, the presure has eased off a bit. But these days are a drop in the ocean compared to squillions of years that got us here. No wonder it's so hard to become aware.