Saturday, 14 November 2020
The body has its own mind, as it were, a highly intelligent and complex unpredictable reflexive and responsive process which is not conscious, at least in the same way as the waking discursive mind, or what we normally understand as consciousness. It does not have qualia in spite of its neural complexity. How do you know that it doesn't have qualia? Because of its intimate relationship with the consciousness that does. It gains qualia at one remove through its relation to this aery spiritual substance we think of as the conscious self. They are partners, the air mind and the dirt mind, or the proletariat and bourgeois of the soul. They are separate but interdependent. They join at birth and separate at death. Strange to think of it that way, and the light it casts on sexuality.
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