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No of course not. However, changing a definition away from what billions of people believe doesn't seem productive. If you want to talk about attention, cool, b
by mbfg 5y ago
No of course not. However, changing a definition away from what billions of people believe doesn't seem productive. If you want to talk about attention, cool, but call it attention. Most religious people don't consider the soul to be a synonym for attention.
It's similar to how some people want to redefine god as the universe. Ok, then just call it the universe, doing otherwise drags all kinds of assumptions and presuppositions that muddy the waters.
- swayvil 5y agoThen you refer to a fantasy. Billions are immersed in fantasy. One might call that a classically religious debacle.
- mbfg 5y agoI'm not saying that's what i believe. I don't believe a soul exists, or could exist. But I'm saying that's what billions of people believe. It doesn't help to redefine away a problem.
- swayvil 5y agoI think "attention" fits pretty well. I think the general population waves its hands and calls it a unicorn. So fuck em. And you might be surprised at how centrally attention figures into the human experience