And it's so sad to see the world agree

That they'd rather see their faces filled with flies

I've never tasted meat: I'm a third-generation vegetarian:
www.hedweb.com/hedethic/wha...
I went vegan in the late 1990s.

@davidpearce.bsky.social what age did you go vegetarian at, and what age did you go vegan?

Coldness is such a beautiful feeling when purified from its evolutionary function. I can easily imagine a world where somatic pleasure is inverted with the feeling of coldness.

QualiaNerd, Andrés, David Pearce, and Cube Flipper all in one twitter conversation?? I love the timeline I'm in.

geometry is a cosmic horror

Likewise, I genuinely can't look at Dalí's Galatea of the Spheres without immediately mapping it onto my proprioception. It's cool sometimes, but it usually feels like body horror.

I can somatically feel this picture.

You're telling me coconut-covered dates aren't just not bad for you, but are also actively healthy? It's too good to be true!

I used to believe nondualism was an incorrect conclusion derived from the signs of representationalism. I still kind of do. But now, as I teeter between the two, I don't know that they aren't actually compatible to begin with.

"the [ozempic] treatments have transformed her experience of flavor & mouthfeel...Freed from her addiction, Kenney believes she can now...perceive what Hostess treats, loaded with sugar, actually are.

Develop sensory clarity > transform experience > taste true nature of phenomena > "interesting"

"Out of all the states of mind I have experienced, there are none which I would want to have forever, except for ego death; and this is not for how pleasurable it is, but because it is the only state that brings 100% freedom from suffering."

Roger Thisdell