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kind of a tangent, but a more general way of thinking about this that includes dualism as a special case would be a near/far distinction, measured from where the locus of consciousness currently is in mindspace
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idea is, most of the brain is thinking most of the time and the locus of consciousness (usually there's one or zero) is somewhere in there but moves around
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and when it's thinking about doing but the body isn't doing, mind/body dualism looks appealing because it captures the situation, but when you're doing, you're very much "in" the body and dualism doesn't work nearly as well
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previously wrote sth about running but then realized that running is one of those tasks where the mind can go wherever; "being in the flow" is a better description of being very embodied
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e.g. when I climb a difficult/tricky boulder, I often can't consciously remember how I did it because it's such a different place mindspace-wise, but then I go in there to show someone else (rather than explain) and do it again
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in this framework, parts of you that are neglected will complain after a while; from your default locus that looks like "the dog" but if you are the dog for a while, you'll see the human complaining
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the human is more eloquent about it, sure, it's the part that most often does structured thought and language