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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)
@visakanv
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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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ingx24 (covid arc)
@ingx24
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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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
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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🦉in the wilderless
@the_wilderless
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in lieu of a book-length lecture on soul as an emergent phenomenon more closely related to the patterning of life force,,, I’ll just go back to the “ancient cultures dualism” and “mind as soul” things and point out that actually many cultures believed in multiple souls, often…
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🦉in the wilderless
@the_wilderless
…having little or nothing to do with the mind. the Egyptian idea of the soul, for example, was ~8-part, and none of the parts equated cleanly to the mind (though the physical body *was* one part of the soul, which suggests a definition of ‘soul’ that equates more to…
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