that's very wrong, i'm sorry not only because 'constructed' =/= 'voluntary', but because it is a fact that there is a neurological component to this stuff that we've known about for like, decades by now
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Replying to @RummitheRummi
but that just gets to my issues with constructivism to begin with: yeah, a lot of stuff is socially constituted. often the causes of, e.g., sadness are socially based and experienced in this very complex web through a kind of 'self', etc., etc., however that doesn't mean
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brains don't exist. there really are ways to do stuff like nearly cut-off, say, sadness, at least in theory. i'm not saying that's a 'good' thing, but it's very naive to write off this element of depression, anxiety, etc.
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I'm go out and defend constructivism here, cus denying biology isn't a constructivist stance and in a certain way it could be considered entirely untenable
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a few things here because people seem to have misunderstood: 1) i do not reject constructivism. the vast majority of subjective phenomena are socially constructed. some aren't though. for example: human beings will always have a society partially organized around particular
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kinds of consumption, because until the unlikely point where technology makes eating a non-necessity, we will always need food. there are some phenomena antithetical to, and some not antithetical to, constructivism, in biology 2) i agree, but then that isn't the point. my issue
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here is with a seeming denial that brains (the thing which, if it doesn't produce the phenomenon we call 'mind' is at minimum a central prerequisite for it) have anything to do with mental illness or w/e. these aren't merely socially constructed phenomena. something like
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Replying to @RummitheRummi @GoodBoyMachine
anxiety or depression or schizophrenia might vary in its manifestation based on how a society's been constructed and what we're being born into, but the phenomenon themselves do have a biological basis that's pretty near-impossible to deny at this point.
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