On Mon, 23 May 2011, Chris McCormick wrote:
Millions of people running the Santa Claus program on their brains. We should pay attention to this real entity because it has a huge effect on the GDP of countries in the western world, every year.
But gift-giving on Christmas was common well before Coca-Cola introduced Santa, isn't it ?
I think it's a mistake that very intelligent people make in dismissing things that are "just ideas". For some reason people think that ideas are something independent of the physical world, but they are not. Ideas physically occupy people's brains and make people change the world.
But I'm not saying that ideas are something independent or unimportant !
I don't think human thought takes place in some magic fairy land. I think it takes place in the same physical reality that we all occupy. I'm not really sure why this idea is contraversial.
Is it controversial ? Perhaps it's a matter of stating that concept in a way that it doesn't get taken for something else.
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