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Who thinks that?
Even little kids know that if you get too hungry or tired you aren't going to be able to do a complex task.
"It's all in your head."
There is a noun for "hand"! OMG, no one thinks hands are part of our bodies!?
well like most of the wellness programs i've seen. they only admit to like general "you'll feel better" but otherwise it's like they demonize it when someone's brain doesn't let them do some thing and somehow they're just supposed to power through that.
It's because of mind-body dualism. Most people have absorbed some amount of mysticism from the culture around them without realizing it, and a distressing amount of Western mystic traditions have some form of mind-body or spirit-body dualism.
Because the brain seems to think it is not a part of the body.
Source: Brain told me to type this.
who is the me the brain told that to tho lol
I put it like this: if you replaced any other part, or even all your other parts with machines, you'd still be (what you think of as) you... because your brain would still be in there.
There is, however, no replacing the brain. If your brain goes, you go with it. You are your brain.
Descartes, and Protestantism.
Because their brains decided so.
not followin ya completely... i see lots of people call themselves 'spiritual' thinking their consciousness is somehow distinct from the body.
its an emergent property of the connectome. you arent you without those interconnected neurons.
No i mean even if they aren't spiritual they talk in terms of like "willpower" or "patience". what even is that and how is it somehow virtuous to have it if it's not virtuous to have hunger or the need to sleep?
Your real question is a bit of an emergent property. Willpower, patience, agency, etc. are concepts abused by authoritarian right-wingers to distance themselves from responsibility and project it upon those they have power over. In this process, those who are abused are forced to identify with a separated, mystical entity they call "brain" that is different from what it really is. And we only have control over 10% of it lol
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