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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
and we can go meta on this: why is this a wild thing to realize? because we started with a belief that the mind and body are somehow separate. where did that belief come from? nobody starts out believing that, stuff like that has to be *learned* from *culture*
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
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when I was writing @Introspectvv, I did a bunch of research about fear and trauma etc that didn't make it into the book, because I don't quite understand it yet. The wildest thing to me is how, while fear is experienced in the body, it's informed by one's perceptions and beliefs
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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the replies to this tweet have some terrible stories about people being denied permission to go to the bathroom when they were kids in school etc. that's the kind of experience that teaches you: "your body and your bodily sensations do not matter"
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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hey remember how we went to school where we spent 8 hours a day for over a decade having what our bodies could do completely under the control of authority figures boy i wonder if that had any lasting effects
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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"but your mind and your thoughts do matter"; therefore they must be separate. the mind is the part of you capable of *obeying orders* while the body remains a stubborn rebel concerned with tedious matters of little import like *peeing* and *fidgeting* and other *inconveniences*
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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your body is trying to say: i don't want to be stuck at this desk all day, i don't want to be stuck indoors all day, i don't want to wake up at 7am to go to school, i want to play with my friends; learning to be a good schoolchild means training yourself to ignore all of this
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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maybe another way to say it is that culture can construct an object inside of you called a “mind”: it can tell you that such a thing definitely exists and cultivate in you a way of being that reinforces its existence and its separateness from the rest of you
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Sei
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Sei
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I don't understand why people aren't more amazed by the placebo effect. The sentiment seems to be that if it's placebo, it's not "real". And like, I get what is meant by that, but - IS IT NOT AMAZING WHAT THAT SAYS ABOUT THE MIND?
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