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Be a new homunculus

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Here's a mental technique that I find useful for addressing many dour feelings, guilt among them: When you're feeling guilty, it is sometimes helpful to close your eyes for a moment, re-open them, and pretend that you're a new homunculus. A "homunculus" is a tiny representation of a

Here's a mental technique that I find useful for addressing many dour feelings, guilt among them: When you're feeling guilty, it is sometimes helpful to close your eyes for a moment, re-open them, and pretend that you're a new homunculus. A "homunculus" is a tiny representation of a human, and one classic fallacy when reasoning about how brains work is the homunculus fallacy , in which people imagine that "they" are a little homonculus inside their head looking at an image generated by their eyes. It's an easy fiction to buy into, that you're a little person in your head that can move your han

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