A good portion of the New Age crowd takes the idiom literally. Listening to their heart is something different than listening to their gut. Different place in the body. Different qualia.
Penn Jillette’s problem is that he take something that’s meant literally pretend that it means something different. It’s like talking to the blind man who thinks that the red and green that you are metaphars for apples and trees.
I grant that there are people who just talk the talk and don’t walk the walk who don’t means it literally. People who read to much books. But it’s a strawman to assume that all people are like this.
A good portion of the New Age crowd takes the idiom literally. Listening to their heart is something different than listening to their gut. Different place in the body. Different qualia.
Penn Jillette’s problem is that he take something that’s meant literally pretend that it means something different. It’s like talking to the blind man who thinks that the red and green that you are metaphars for apples and trees.
I grant that there are people who just talk the talk and don’t walk the walk who don’t means it literally. People who read to much books. But it’s a strawman to assume that all people are like this.