tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3342041114052632712.post3177994478497912198..comments2024-01-20T16:39:42.179+11:00Comments on PhyloBotanist: Are we our bodies?Alex SLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00801894164903608204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3342041114052632712.post-25386444590746253062014-01-29T07:47:29.165+11:002014-01-29T07:47:29.165+11:00You are right, maybe I have been too unclear here....You are right, maybe I have been too unclear here. There is a difference between what people believe they believe and what they actually do believe as demonstrated by their actions. I do not doubt that many people have the first kind of belief in souls without reconciling its contradiction with how they actually identify with their bodies in everyday life.Alex SLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801894164903608204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3342041114052632712.post-12777670840627588312014-01-29T02:25:24.809+11:002014-01-29T02:25:24.809+11:00I think you're underestimating people's ca...I think you're underestimating people's capacity to hold views that are contradictory! One of my grandads would have agreed with you, but I'm not convinced he'd looked beyond the spade being a spade argument. Nearly everyone else he knew would have been in some form of active or passive denial. Their body was them, only until it got inconvenient.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com