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Yes. But what is your perspective on, for example, illness? For many of the modern un-understood illnesses like autism or allergies or auto immune disorders, there may by no obvious solutions but choices still need to be made daily - does that still require abstract thinking?
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I think nowadays we eat more in an effort to feed the mind than the body. We think we know what's good for us, but since knowledge always repairs itself, we will after a while realize what we thought was good for us was actually terrible (take cigarettes or lobotomy as examples).
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These sorts of un-understood, novel illnesses result from somethings we consume (or that are in our living environments) but don't yet see the pathological connection, or rather, don't yet want to see it.
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The body knows precisely what it needs in order to flourish, but since our culture so deeply vows against listening to our natural instincts, we think we know what's best—and consequently give space for illnesses of these sorts to appear.
For example, and are doing wonderful work regarding the connection between the pathologies of the modern world, from nutrition to cellular health. They're applying abstract thinking in a wonderful way; in unison with listening to the body.
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The thing about thinking is that when it's not rooted in reality, it turns very ignorant, and hence destructive. And when it begins to live in the form of dogma, it is effectively no longer rooted in reality.
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