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> I meant all thinking is a physical process that ends at death, same as the individual tree's cells stop working when you burn them.

So the bit about "treeness" was just rhetoric and not meant to do more than suggest an analogy.

It seems to me that when discussing Plato it doesn't make sense to gratuitously trash an idea related to Platonic thought if you have no intention of backing up that attack.



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