the economic function of mind-body dualism is to construct the experience of the mind as not actually happening so as to justify telling the enslaved other to shut up about their experience and get back to work
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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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I was born in 1965. I lived through some of it.
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