What if you awoke tomorrow with nothing in your head? What if you had to start over, to be what you were on the day of your birth?
Play along. I’ll give you the ability to reason, an ability that you did not have at birth. But nothing else: No developed emotional response, no memory of human ways save those that are inborn and instinctive, and no skills save eating, drinking, and walking. Blank.
How do you deal with the world? You would be in a constant state of discovery. What do you think would attract your attention?
I could easily go on, directing you with questions, but “blank” means “blank.” However, I will yield this: You have only the world as it is today, not the world through which you passed in your personal history. You are “blank” in the “here and now.” Now, go build your life.
Play along. I’ll give you the ability to reason, an ability that you did not have at birth. But nothing else: No developed emotional response, no memory of human ways save those that are inborn and instinctive, and no skills save eating, drinking, and walking. Blank.
How do you deal with the world? You would be in a constant state of discovery. What do you think would attract your attention?
I could easily go on, directing you with questions, but “blank” means “blank.” However, I will yield this: You have only the world as it is today, not the world through which you passed in your personal history. You are “blank” in the “here and now.” Now, go build your life.
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