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  • HasntBeen
    A human being has no essential nature: that's defective thinking. The mind takes the whole of reality, and carves it up into "units" conceptually -- that's how it organizes it's perceptions so that thinking can occur. But it's a mistake to take those units (concepts) and start to believe they have absolute independent reality separate from the whole they were carved out of. This is the source of most of the classic philosophical "problems" -- problems which are really semantic silliness that arise when a concept is taken too seriously. So, a human being is part and parcel of the whole of reality... a living organism intertwined with, and dependent upon, a complex ecosystem and set of conditions we call "the universe". There's no "core essence" of a human being for the same reason there's no core essence of a forest -- a human's existence is dependent on many correlated conditions.
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