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Full Idea
Belief in the body is better established than belief in the mind.
Gist of Idea
Belief in the body is better established than belief in the mind
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 40[15])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.43
A Reaction
Compare Spinoza in Idea 4833. Hawking says he thinks better because he is largely paralysed. Externalism about mind makes it necessarily a part of the world and hence physical. I am inclined to agree with Nietzsche.
Related Idea
Idea 4833 The human mind is the very idea or knowledge of the human body [Spinoza]