• octoperson@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    If they actually followed through with that you’d kind of have to admire it. What else would they have to do away with? All abstract concepts obviously, along with everything they’d been told, read, or imagined. How about theory of mind? Object permanence? Would they be newly surprised by the sunrise every day?

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      1 year ago

      It devolves pretty quickly into an infantile solipsism. The world exists only for me, and only when I’m looking.