@CurlOfGradient The symmetrical sin of forsaking an actual goal of yours just because in its murky origins it was merely instrumental for some other goal.
@OortCloudAtlas You keep mentioning the Venn diagram between meditation and psychotherapy, but Venn diagram have four parts. It seems like Ingram and Shinzen, for example, have different takes on the stuff that neither meditation nor therapy do.
@The_Lagrangian My usual thinking is that a-life makes the mistake of providing the act of flawless reproduction for free, as well as sharply delineating generations and separating organism from environment.
@The_Lagrangian Lately I've been thinking biological systems are incentivised to collect non-harmful forms of mutation-generating mechanisms; eg transposons knowing a little something about how to not ruin the host genome.