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my question was to the parent. my point is that pretending like this is a trivial phenomenon is just naive.

not sure what your reply is even supposed to mean or convey, frankly speaking.

I see this type of comment and attitude way more often than I think is healthy, at least on HN. I think it's intellectual anxiety and or toxic masculinity.

maybe because that subject has something esoteric about it which provokes reflexive disregard in some people.

It’s nothing of the sort. It’s the kind of reply you’d get if you tried to answer a exam question with nonsense words that doesn’t advance the conversation, at least intellectually. Your claim of toxic masculinity is absurd. People want to talk rationally and it can be very frustrating to have nonsense smeared all over a thread.

With no disrespect, I see it again in this reply. It's the need for rationality or else which is what I'm talking about.

I see this attitude as a type of violence against alternative views, ideas and the imagination itself.

> > how does the coupling work?

> through our senses

I think it's pretty obvious what I meant?

      person A        person A     person B       person B
     brain waves ->    body     ->  senses   ->  brain waves
                 <-   senses    <-   body    <-

and what is this adding to the question of how this works or that it works? nothing. your suggestion is as speculative as it is generic.

Being insufferable is not required to get your point across.

We all spend a fair bit of time discussing things without certainty. Immediately shooting those bits and pieces down only looks to end the discussion.

the post i initially replied to is what aims at ending the discussion by pretending it's not a big deal if this is actually the case.

He's not being insufferable; he's being sane.

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