the enslaved other may be a human chattel owned by another person it may be a province exploited by the metropole it may be a nation conquered by an invader it may be the parts of yourself you batter down with abuse as above so below
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Yes, this is how we know that mind-body dualism is false. May I interest you in some books by Paul M. Churchland?
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another damned thick square book
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That's right, and it's better than Gibbon's. I recommend you start with Plato's Camera. (Although if you are really still entertaining mind-body dualism, Churchland dropped that one dead in an earlier and easier book, Matter and Consciousness.)
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oh not entertaining it outside of hazmat containment certainly
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I'm not worried. Just thought that you might like some book recs, that's all. What have you been reading lately? I mean, if you don't mind my prying. I just like the cut of your jib.
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a lot of my reading time is my weekly comics pull, but in between those, don't tell anyone but i only just now cracked open Fanged Noumena. "Kant, Capital and the Prohibition of Incest" was delightful, loved the swerve into advocacy of feminist death squads at the end
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Yeah, when I was a younger man I was into reading philosophy and whatnot, but now that I'm getting older and my brain has started to noticeably deterioriate I've realized that the only advantage I have is in studying history, which is what I do.
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hunh, where does the relative advantage with respect to history come from?
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"The experience of the mind as not...happening"? The mind's experience is denigrated? The mind is the enslaved in this situation?
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the mind's experience is considered unreal to help enslave something: a body, a part of a mind, a people
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"it's all in your head" you mean the organic super computer through which i experience the entirety of the universe?
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ego death is more conducive to getting things done than any theory of mind
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This is a much more elegant statement than I usually make when people tell me "mind over matter". Mine is the verbal equivalent of throwing a brick with a flaming bag of poop through their window into their living room and screaming DON'T MIND IT, IT'S JUST MATTER!
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