@sarahdoingthing this is both entirely sincere on the part of individuals and a brutally cynical move *by the subcultural egregore*
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@sarahdoingthing Extending the cultural triumph of the Han to the spirit world, I think. Enshrined the Yellow Emperor. -
@sarahdoingthing ie answer is supercomplex and probably requires understanding the entire cultural tradition--beyond human grasp -
@sarahdoingthing (Lovecraftian/Landian connection there--the King in Yellow, the Yellow Emperor--egregores are real, unknowable, gigantic) -
@St_Rev I wonder if it makes sense to say they have their own agency - being treated as if you have agency seems to make it kind of true -
@St_Rev in terms of real-world effects, even if you don't technically exist or have a mind separate from human minds -
@sarahdoingthing Chinese room tho. There's the mind of the individual (actually a chaos of submodules) & then there's the network. -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing maybe you could write a glossary -
@ckhonson@sarahdoingthing IDK how that would work -
@ckhonson@sarahdoingthing here is the problem, to be blunt: my short-term memory/concentration is badly impaired -
@ckhonson@sarahdoingthing have all this stuff swirling in my head but I can't choose to bring it out. talking to ppl triggers it sometimes -
@ckhonson@sarahdoingthing but...fuck I forgot my point. which I guess is my point
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@St_Rev @asilentsky@sarahdoingthing This somehow reminded me of Chinese foot binding. -
@i_contemplate_ @asilentsky@sarahdoingthing Nah, it's more a mirror of Confucian ritual obligations.
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