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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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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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OK I have to speak up here, this is just not true. mind-body dualism is well known across multiple disciplines to be a universal default belief, the idea of the soul and afterlife pops up in every culture independently going all the way back to prehistoric times
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i'm not following. the idea of the soul and afterlife is common to many cultures, yes, what does this have to do with mind-body dualism?
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