Mind-body problem has been largely supplanted in times of compassion scarcity and affective flows. SF allowed its collective mind tentacles to explore a wider sensorium and even nom- phenomenological or apperceptive (causal efficacy?) means of feeling or being.

Here a fine review of The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor http://hugoclub.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-tentacle-of-empathy.html

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