the desire for beauty thus is a desire for lack of compression. to see reality in maximum fidelity as "God intended" (w/o the information compression trick of abstraction gained through that magic apple)
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what is meant by "freedom" is not the wealth to pay any price and get "whatever i want" it is more like having 1000TB of music space so that downloading the super high quality file is no issue except the storage is MEMORY
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because flow experiences cannot be compressed, someone who has a LOT of flow experiences is naturally FELT to be "fuller" and "larger" than someone who contains information that CAN be easily compressed
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a pianist or a surgeon or soldier for example feels heroic because it indicates an accumulation of experiences where EVERY SMALL DETAIL MATTERS
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an engineer or programmer on the other hand doesn't because it's so easy to "fake" knowledge because in 99% of situations only the final output matters and that can be copy pasted like how used car lots are avoided due to a fear of lemons
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other fields like math or ping pong suffer from the opposite problem. it's too esoteric or fast to be appreciated. everything looks the same to outsiders.
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freedom thus is an unlimited appetite for full fidelity beautiful experiences. a "zest" for life. (note that Greed is a near enemy to this as it too has a large appetite)
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the max limit here is someone who lives a life fully in flow. where only ONE memory is created and is recalled ONCE at the moment of death. it is someone who has died before they died it is someone who lives as if they were watching their life flash before their eyes
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this is when i POUNCE!!!https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1384476944528547840 …
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