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@kilroy70 said
Is the mind and brain the same thing?
Is a pawn the same thing as a piece of wood or plastic?

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@moonbus said
Is a pawn the same thing as a piece of wood or plastic?
It can actually be both! πŸ™‚

-VR


@fmf said
What are "the big questions"?
Do they teach "Te Deum" at Cambridge, or just Tedium?


Also: Why have you never tried to cultivate me as a friend?

@divegeester only thinks he's smart, whereas I actually am.


@moonbus said
Is a pawn the same thing as a piece of wood or plastic?
Wouldn't that be a shim?


@ghost-of-a-duke said
Every conversation we have ends in you trying to arm the aardvarks.
Any aardvark can be disarmed with a Greggs corn beef pasty.


@kevin-eleven said
Wouldn't that be a shim?
Well they can be made out of plastic or wood.

-VR


@fmf said
Will there ever be prescription drugs that can treat people for their white supremacism?
Or the corollary:

When white people get gene-mods to brown up, will they be excoriated for genetic appropriation?


@kevin-eleven said
Or the corollary:

When white people get gene-mods to brown up, will they be excoriated for genetic appropriation?
I'll let you know. πŸ™‚

-VR


@fmf said
What are "the big questions"?
Keeping busy, what to do?

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@moonbus said
Is a pawn the same thing as a piece of wood or plastic?
The (implied) analogy appears to work:
The pawn is to mind as wood/plastic is to brain.

It doesn't matter much what the pawn is made of, or what it looks like. If it functions as a pawn, it's a pawn.

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@kilroy70 said
Good answer.
I knew a young woman from high school days, and she was taking birth control pills. I asked her how they work. She majored in chemistry so was able to explain exactly (a little too exactly) what the pills do.

The pills worked to fool the body into thinking it's already pregnant, so her body shuts down the production of eggs until she stops taking the pill. T ...[text shortened]... e to know this? How could she be fooled into believing something and at the same time not be fooled.
Let me have another go at this....

She was consciously altering the state and function of her unconscious body, her mind/brain were never fooled.


If Picasso was able to paint like Raphael as a youngster, why did it take years for him to learn how to paint like a child?


Why do English-speaking people still call the Inuits "Eskimos"?

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