この時点で,あなたは怒りだすであろう。(そうして)あなたは,次のように言いたくなるであろう。
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At this point I fear you will be becoming indignant. You will be inclined to say:
"But, my dear Sir, how can you be so dense? Surely even you must know that thoughts and pleasures and pains cannot be pushed about like billiard balls, whereas matter can. Matter occupies space. It is impenetrable; it is hard (unless it is soft); thoughts are not like this. You cannot play billiards with your thoughts. When you banish a thought, the process is quite different from that of being ejected by the police. You, of course, as a philosopher" (so, no doubt, you will continue) "are superior to all human passions. But the rest of us experience pleasures and pains, and sticks and stones do not. In view of all this I cannot understand how you can be so stupid as to make a mystery of the difference between mind and matter." |