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I'm Sitting in a House Right Now, and I'M Struck by WELL.
Everything we know is nothing but symbols. And we act according to that. When you remind people of that, they freak out. They have like, existential criseste crises,. Like, meta, cognatively trip out. It's so much easier to read and watch tv and talk to each oter on zoom than it is to be physically present with them for those physical, sensory inputs. So if you think you know or understand the world because you read abuch, you don't. Ah, there's very big differences. But in fact, almost everything you know is symbolic knowledge, not experiencial knowledge. We're talking about how different applications of abstract thinking affects imer the behaviour of