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I've always considered philosophy as a sort of the mind's struggle for its own life. The introspective mind somehow can't validate itself without somehow having the absolute last say about something.

Given this track, a philosophical mind will produce a lot of thoughts, models, and theories of how anything that already exists could exist in the first place. That is itself an interesting mind-game that in some cases might even produce an insight that is applicable to something real, but generally that's where it should stay.

The mind can't think itself into existence, even if it wants to believe it can.

If it does the result bears resemblance to as if someone would try to describe forest but only be allowed to draw straight lines in one color. At best it could be exemplary line art, at worst it's just ridiculous and childish and most people will turn the other way.



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