A lot of human actions are not purely authentic Heideggerian absorbed coping with reality but are also a simultaneous representation and engagement with the action as a symbol or sign
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Replying to @meekaale
words are tools that break constantly but also somehow seem to form their own hypnosis fields that keep us absorbed
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Replying to @literalbanana @meekaale
kinda feel like words can only break if you’re treating them instrumentally and atomically, instead of as injections of information into an ecology
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Replying to @averykimball @meekaale
I like that way of putting the failure mode - even using words to pick out aspects of near reality is hard though
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