How can you be positively aware of a negative, e.g. how can your mind affirm the absence of a cat? "Absence" can only be an answer if your mind, on a deeper level, was looking for something beyond the cat itself.

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https://ykulbashian.medium.com/how-a-mind-can-become-aware-of-a-nothing-087728fa7e4f