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Originally Posted by jadis
That's very interesting. I know that Michel Foucault had a different take* (for him, hard drugs were one of the means of undoing or at least freeing up the fixed nature of one's identity, going beyond its monotony) but it seems to me that for the vast majority of people what you said is exactly right.
*Mostly in private conversations with people who've since written about him, he had zero interest in being a Timothy Leary.
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But I think
Foucault was right. Some people are constantly trying to find some new key to
open doors that would get them out of a jail that they'd call this body. If you have the key,
you can find a thousand doors of illusions. but I've never thought of that as living outside of
your body in etherspace. Seems to me that you're experiencing one of your very real selves
that lives in the various neuron and ion exchanges that readily exists in your physical self.