Some of these reminded me of when Weft asked a few slightly related qustions previously.

I found it a surprisingly fresh take, given so many shared starting assumptions. I really enjoy reading someone thinking aloud for themselves, even on a topic that's been talked about so much. And a surprisingly optimistic conclusion.

Yeah, I think you're right. Edited.

I was honestly a bit surprised how well you managed to pull the exact moment from my childhood where I learned the word 'monograph'. I read every page of a beautiful red book that contained all of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and I distinctly recall the line about having written a monograph on the subject of cigar ash, and being able to discern the different types.

Seconding Habryka.

Seconding Jacob.

This is both fascinating and very valuable for understand human psychology, and id like to see it reviewed.

Seconding Habryka. I’d really like to see this reviewed.

Seconding Habryka. I have thought often about this post.

Seconding Ray. This was a bunch of important hypotheses about consciousness I had never heard of.