Posted by unbottled on October 16, 2007, at 0:43:25
In reply to Re: Designing drugs » Phillipa, posted by Squiggles on October 15, 2007, at 20:24:46
> Words are static
Descriptions, per se, are wrong, for that reason.
The "live" thing being described is always so much
more complex. etc.What exactly is underbeneath of the drugs, begs
the question. Because (an extreme example) isn't
the deformation that your childhood consisted of
a kind of "foreign" addition to whatever you
started with? Isn't everything?Your real personality, I'm afraid, is just
"what you get"."What you get" is whatever shows up, whatever
response the observer notices, the summation of a
load of things: what he/she seems to be - through
the prism of the drugs and whatever else is
happening at that and at previous moments, etc.
etc. etc.But yes, it's troubling. Am I cheating when
I'm mingling with people (not something I would
want to do ordinarily) whilst on my Deprenyl /
Moclobemide combo?Only his psychiatrist knows for sure.
> Words are static
> but what they represent is not,
> subjectively or neurologically.
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> Squiggles
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