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great post

i’m regularly shocked at the supposed unwillingness of self-described leftists to read. your comment is a 2-3 minute read at average reading speed.

:illuminati:

dualists and mechanistic materialists alike need to read up on emergence / emergent phenomena

complex arrangements of simple things can produce new mechanisms that are greater and more novel than their parts. consciousness is a great example of this. just because it’s currently too complex to fully define and pinpoint doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, or exists separate from the body that it emerges from.

The phrase’s brevity gives it some overlap with a lot of different concepts, many of which are unfortunately associated with norm policing, otherizing, and oppression.

But the core essence that Brace was trying to communicate is essential. Not that acting outside the norm is bad or that atypical people are less human, but that as a tactical process, we have to be aware of how we’re perceived by the people we’re trying to influence and meet them where they’re at. Just because we’re right doesn’t mean people will listen.

A phrase better than “be normal” would be nice tbh. But it is concise.