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"the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged"
She asks: Would you still be attracted to me if I got fat?
I say: Would you be attracted to me if I got into shape?
years later
She asks: Would you be attracted to me if I were unattractive?
I say: Would you still be attracted to me if I were a corpse?
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To which she replied, "I don't know - am I mentioned in your Will?"
But seriously, @rowens, my God, why are you so good at this?
Currently reading E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops." 1909, and "prescient" ain't in it. Just starting Chapter 2, and he's already invented Homelessness as a capitalized thing. I feel like I've read it before, but only because every Dystopian/Hive screenwriter must have.
Oh, by the way: my rule of thumb is, "There are no minds without bodies," or the prisoner's truism, "Everybody's got to be somewhere." And J. K. Rowling's complementary caution, "Never trust a thing if you can't see where it keeps its brains."
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I don't believe in Will.
The brain doesn't seem necessary. Though, as It is, it manifests men as they currently are. Memories and intelligences exist throughout the body; the brain allows for what we consider being alive; the body is living regardless of that. It's all an organism, from sun to dirt to sea to air to stars to all that can't be sensed or directly sensed. Beauty is the form-maker that becomes the form-giver, domimatrix of the pseudorational-theatre of biochemistry. Patterns of sounds and shapes. Simple to see clearly, while the hallucinations of narratives and affective attractions and repulsions are angels with multiedgedandpointed spinning swords of reasons. And from the point of view of the spinning sword, it's Idealism all the way down.
