@moonbus saidIt can actually be both! π
Is a pawn the same thing as a piece of wood or plastic?
-VR
Also: Why have you never tried to cultivate me as a friend?
@divegeester only thinks he's smart, whereas I actually am.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidAny aardvark can be disarmed with a Greggs corn beef pasty.
Every conversation we have ends in you trying to arm the aardvarks.
@kevin-eleven saidI'll let you know. π
Or the corollary:
When white people get gene-mods to brown up, will they be excoriated for genetic appropriation?
-VR
@moonbus saidThe (implied) analogy appears to work:
Is a pawn the same thing as a piece of wood or plastic?
The pawn is to mind as wood/plastic is to brain.
It doesn't matter much what the pawn is made of, or what it looks like. If it functions as a pawn, it's a pawn.
09 Jun 22
@kilroy70 saidLet me have another go at this....
Good answer.
I knew a young woman from high school days, and she was taking birth control pills. I asked her how they work. She majored in chemistry so was able to explain exactly (a little too exactly) what the pills do.
The pills worked to fool the body into thinking it's already pregnant, so her body shuts down the production of eggs until she stops taking the pill. T ...[text shortened]... e to know this? How could she be fooled into believing something and at the same time not be fooled.
She was consciously altering the state and function of her unconscious body, her mind/brain were never fooled.