James Lindsay's Life in Light of Death looks at transcendence narratives & instinct to deny that we're mammals
Wish for privacy for certain biological functions. Dualism. Great chain of being. Bestial being negative etc.
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Ppl don't literally deny mammalian properties. They can't. They present animal status, carnality, biology as bad
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So when you say “humans instinctively deny they are mammals” you really mean something entirely different?
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I have explained what I mean several times now. Disdaining our animal status, carnality, biology.
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But that is how we say it, isn't it? Often? Stop behaving like an animal? Sex beast?
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