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Embracing medieval peasant brain
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But even if you could communicate with the sun, why would the sun want to communicate with you? A little flesh blob filled with those gross heavier elements instead of much nicer hydrogen and helium?
This is something I've never understood about all this woo pseudo-pagan "mother gaia" type stuff, why would the earth itself, or the sun or universe or whatever, care about a single tiny person within it?
But the sun does communicate with me. Everytime I look at it, my eyes burn terribly. This is the sun communicating to me that it does not wish to be directly observed
They are perfectly happy ascribing them a number of other superhuman and supernatural abilities. Why not the superhuman ability to care?
I guess it just confuses me, because it's one thing to ascribe superhuman traits to an invisible deity, entirely another to give them to an actual, tangible object we can interact with and know a lot about.
it'd be like caring about a single cell on your skin
You've put to words very well what I've felt strongly for a while now, that we are all the same liquid decanted into different containers, the same light refracting into different prisms
Panpsychism is a kind of cosmic horror mythos.
how much do any of us think about the cells of our own body? must be rough, being a skin cell in the fingertip
I think the idea is that the magical force - the earth, the sun, the universe, god, whatever - cares about every single tiny person and every single tiny being, so yes of course it cares about you too.
I think the preponderance of the evidence suggests that nobody gives much of a fuck about anyone else, let alone any magical forces caring about everyone and everything.
I'd like to think that ineffable something that can be glimpsed at the heights of love, ecstasy, psychedelics, etc, is a kind of magical force that could affect change through the power of tremendous collective care.