New post, a little delayed this week: The Things You Carry: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/06/12/the-things-you-carry/ …
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Replying to @ribbonfarm
The things we carry (or keep around) are the complement of our garbage. Telling garbage from non-garbage is a complex judgment.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
Depressed people and certain others are not capable of it. The self and its objects become indistinguishable from garbage.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
Trying to tell garbage from non-garbage is emotional, subtle, and likely AI-hard in all but very obvious cases (food wrappers)
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing Packing a home to move reveals the complexity of this. Why do I have this object? What does it mean to me / say about me?2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing used to be fascinated by listening to private art collectors talk abt the identity science of their purchases2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @thesublemon
@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing sometimes it was very precise, like, they care abt owning a specific, identity-loaded work...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing ...for others it was more diffuse. they wanted to own a lot of works that approximated something about them1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@thesublemon @sarahdoingthing wonder if / to what extent / why having things that remind you who you are is a cultural universal
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Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@thesublemon@sarahdoingthing Property dualism.0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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