The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.

Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible - ideally, by creating a subjective sense of "presence" and full immersion in the user.

What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscious model of reality that, first, it can contain elements that are not experienced as mind-independent, as unequivocally real, as immediately given, and second, that there is a "gradient of realness" in which one and the same content can be experienced transparently or in an opaque fashion.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.