@ira It's a very rational angle, yes. That's a less important angle than the embodied experience so no problem! I like it 'cause it uses the scientific language of our cultural bias in order to transcend it. Let me share an album that lifted me off to elsewhere recently : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwMqX7JdaY

@ira all joking aside, are you into metaphysics? My culturally influenced neo-darwinistic and philosophically materialist intuition has recently been shattered (again) thanks to the talks of Bernardo Kastrup who breaks the (non-)logic of philosophical materialism into tiny pieces. Checking what he says might help to convince you/me in believing that it's possible (some instances) to experience being something much larger then our everyday sense of self. https://youtu.be/BbnfnveWUh0?si=QhGXgozK3fmfmUdK

@ira @jamesholden super!