In using "It," Brad was making a joke based on the kinda famous (to SF movie nuts) 1950's feature ...
... and it's a good joke, but it is rather misleading because of the ways words like "it" or "something" or "that" tend to reify emptiness (even "emptiness" as a word can do this) into an object, limited and small and rather frozen as some idea of a limited thing, separate from ourselves.
Gassho, J
STLah
... and it's a good joke, but it is rather misleading because of the ways words like "it" or "something" or "that" tend to reify emptiness (even "emptiness" as a word can do this) into an object, limited and small and rather frozen as some idea of a limited thing, separate from ourselves.
Reification is when you think of or treat something abstract as a physical thing.
Reification is a complex idea for when you treat something immaterial — like happiness, fear, or evil — as a material thing.
Reification is a complex idea for when you treat something immaterial — like happiness, fear, or evil — as a material thing.
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