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hollyhoppet OP wrote
Too late
Presidential_Afro wrote
u are
emma wrote
This depends entirely on the definition of 'you'. If your head was severed from your body, which of these counts as 'you'? What if both were 'alive' after the severing? Who is arbitrarily deciding which cells of the body count as one's soul? Why are some cells of your body assigned personality, while others aren't?
hollyhoppet OP wrote
what if i were to say that actually you're outside because you're no longer inside?
mm_ wrote
easy: inside. when construction workers are doing a room that has a door going to it but the room isn't yet enclosed, technically we are all 'inside' those rooms, right? so then normally being in the door way would be like 50% outside 50% inside? but the 'construction insides' that leak out, making the doorframe itself 'inside' those rooms, outweigh that to like 49% outside 51% inside imo
Fangren wrote
You'd be wrong. The doorway is part of the building, and by entering it you are thus entering a part of the building. Meaning, technically, you are inside.
hitto wrote (edited )
the doorway is a liminal space, a boundary between two states of being, "inside" and "outside". to enter a doorway is to transition between these states, and for a brief moment one is neither inside nor outside, but in a non-state of profound uncertainty and ambiguity, where conventional order is dissolved into infinite possibilities - but sooner or later that ambiguity must coalesce into one of the predetermined states, and order is reestablished under new conditions: what once was outside is now inside, or what once was inside is now outside. the transition itself, or the ritual space reserved for it, however, cannot fully be encompassed by either state.
flabberghaster wrote
You do know a ton about architecture so i must defer to you on this matter.
devtesla wrote
no don't