“Because,” I should have said, “we aren’t just some things with intelligence in the world. We’re more like the world with intelligence in some things. You can no more abstract intelligence from the world than you can abstract existence from existents. What comes back from the abstraction, if anything, is something entirely different from what went into it.”
And he would have said: “Thanks, Dad.”
“I’m glad we had this talk. Now go read Being and Time.”
“Awwww!”
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