Shamil Chandaria on awakening & the Bayesian brain | Living Mirrors #106
Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke
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The Beauty of Experience
With beauty, I'm often tempted to think that you could maybe define it in terms of being the release from a false impression of reality being mundane. We wouldn't get anything done if everything didn't feel kind of boring and mundane and familiar. So I can imagine that the beauty almost being a release from that, in which case you'd expect it to be transient. There's something very potent about it. But also, you know, saying earlier that there are no brute facts, but actually, you could argue the fact of being here's a kind of brute fact. And so you can kind of try and naturalize being, I think. It's hard to either swim into models and
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