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The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and SoulLatin still exists, but it is no longer a living language. The language of the cave people of France no longer exists at all. The game of bridge is less than a hundred years old. What sort of thing is it? It is not animal, vegetable or mineral. These things are not physical objects with mass, or a chemical composition, but are not purely abstract objects eitherБЂ”objects like the number оЂ, which is immutable and cannot be located in space and time. These things have birthplaces and histories. They can change and things can happen to them. They can move aboutБЂ”much the same way a species, a disease, or an epidemic can. We must not suppose that science teaches us that every thing anyone would ever want to take seriously is identifiable as a collection of particles moving about in space and time. Some people may think it is just common sense (or just good scientific thinking) to suppose you are nothing but a particular living, physical organismБЂ”a moving around of atomsБЂ”but in fact this idea exhibits a lack of scientific imagination, not hard-headed sophistication ...» |
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