9-2b3d Everett on George Berkeley's critique of the very notions of abstraction and generalization - There is no mind of any kind, only bodies and the world in which they move

Everett: “There is no mind of any kind (except as an imprecise way of talking about the brains), only bodies and the world (cultural, biological, ecological, etc.) in which they move”revisit

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