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Apr 7Liked by Awais Aftab

Another Hofstader quote along these lines: "No enlightenment whatsoever would come if a physicist tried to explain World War II by saying it came about thanks to trillions upon trillions of momentum-conserving collisions taking place among ephemeral quantum-mechanical specks. The general rule is that we swim in the world of everyday concepts, and it is they, not micro-events, that define our reality."

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Apr 8·edited Apr 8

“Although there is a lot more to the mind-body relationship than there is to, say, the citizen-government relationship “ Are you being tongue in cheek here? My gut tells me I shouldn’t always defer to the brain when it comes to processing information.

Government is whatever it is that governs. 2) That includes the many connections among men, hence minds, brains. with culture, written regulations. Air quality issues

To emphasize my point: My mind was the key fact at issue in a court case that lasted tw0 years. During that trial I underwent brain surgery. The anterograde amnesia is pretty strong in several situations although sometimes things came back to me from when I was partially healed. I’m told I spent a fair bit of time screaming.

In hierarchies just who’s calling the shots is highly context sensitive. By far the largest part of what runs and organizes a country are the people who live there. The prisoners make decisions about how prison employee made decisions Those guards and inmates shared value systems and attitudes in a manner I found disturbing.

I’m not sure if you consider memory recall to be a mental phenomenon.

Awareness is a referencing operation - contingent and fleeting. .

*I was disappointed. The Neurologist we consulted told the prosecutor “Trust the Experts” and the prosecutor just folded. Don't get me wrong, I wanted him to lose the argument, but that's just stupid. The poor neurologist got vaxxed and died soon after he trusted the experts.

I was a little annoyed. Butalized me had a 2 year trial but they don't even want to know whether there's evidence or not?

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