Sender Spike
1 min readApr 27, 2023

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If I'm strawmaning and ad homineming, you argument from ignorance. Is there such a fallacy? If not, it should be introduced. After all, your account of personal autonomy evidently does ignore large chunks of, not only neurobiology, but also psychology. Particularly transpersonal but also behavioral.

As I said, that retreat to "void of nirvana" you talk about is a myth. And in the case of vast majority of so called Eastern sages a pretense, mere posture. It's the same myth as the popular Christian interpretations of metaphysics you constantly ridicule. You see some ascetics behave in a particular way, because that's what they think is nirvana (that is, they align with the mass fiction of a detached sage), and then you assume that that is indeed it. So no, precisely that tranquil detachment is a strawman and you are just projecting.

The rest is moot and not worth discussing because it hinges on the errors I mentioned previously.

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