i mean, it's the opposite of arete in every way, but it's inherently self-correcting, therefore it drives toward arete
so you're willing to extend the bounds of your subjective experience to an intellectual exercise. excellent. well, the thing is, the wetware i'm running on has a faculty called prospection that lets me apprehend how phenomena around me are likely to change over time
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having an apprehension of these things, i am able to form aesthetic judgments about them (hardly able to avoid doing so, in fact). lots of worlds without humans are aesthetically fine, but one where they high IQ memed themselves out of existence is hilarious but offensive
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if one were to not have the faculty of prospection, of course, projection of future states wouldn't be part of one's subjective experience. if one were a member of some species other than humans and birds, for example, the two kinds of being known to have it
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