Jiang argues that logic is a system developed to control how people behave and think within our world.
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He says denying a person's thoughts as true is a form of gaslighting because thoughts are constitutive of the self.
He says neuroscience avoids the basic question of where thoughts come from because it cannot answer it within a purely biological frame.
A metaphor is a connection between things previously unseen; because it makes a new connection, it is a new thought and a tool for thought.
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"so let me answer your question, okay? Because this is a question that most high school students are going to have. If you're in..."
"...we can actually know to be true, right? You know your thoughts to be true, but can you be for sure that the reality..."
"...answer is the Geist, right? The answer is, where do our thoughts come from? And where do our thoughts go? Do you really think..."
"It's a ghost. It is with us and it is not with us. Exactly. Exactly. And that's why, and that's how we can explain..."
"...If you think about it, what this is is a new thought. And there are lots of metaphors in the Iliad. Okay? So, essentially,..."
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