The soul is a type of aesthetic: the optimization target that the mind maintains to construct the self. The soul is the platonic form of the intentional agency of an individual.
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Replying to @Plinz
For most people, the soul seems to be a just happy feeling of already achieved selfhood. A thing they do not have to optimize, or consider the form of. Very few people say things like "I'm a bit removed from my soul today" or "my soul is almost in reach!".
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Replying to @EndOfSequence
I feel that I have largely lost my soul, and I notice it by observing that I am not immersed in experience but in abstractions. Feelings and experiences are distractions coming in from a distant land.
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Replying to @DianaGeojay @EndOfSequence
I am where it is, but it’s gotten lost in a world removed from most experience
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Replying to @Plinz @EndOfSequence
It? Are there two operating systems in one consciousness? One system to succeed in problem solving and another without any service in academia, called the 'soul'. That part of the self aware consciousness which proves its own existence only through qualia?
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Replying to @DianaGeojay @EndOfSequence
Yes, that’s close. I mostly live in my intellect, not in my experience. It has to do with attentional focus
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How is this a distinction? What part of living in the intellect isn't an experience?
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The intellect does not provide many experiential qualities. In fact, they often sully it.
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Is that a consequence of it not being optional? (I’m reading intellect as a function of mental activity, and don’t know how one would turn it off while being alive. Similarly, I don’t know how one would engage it, while not being alive)
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The intellect is the problem solving machinery of our mind, together with the models it creates and maintains. It is necessary to understand the parts of experience that cannot be analyzed intuitively.
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