The brain prefers a sad or unpleasant familiarity over ectedais to a prefered sorit. The intoxicating lure of familiarity is often because we are prediction machines, and if i go with what's familiar, then i can make predictions right. Alexander barton, i disagree about utopias. I'll put that aside for now. He and i are going to talk more about that.
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