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This is a book for 4 year olds I hate this so much https://t.co/sM6imi54dU
> Why? Starting with the strictly false: your brain doesn’t feel sparkly. You, the conscious embodied whole organism, might feel something like sparkly (though I must confess to never having felt this way myself). The notion of your brain feeling something is straightforwardly… https://t.co/FBx0sJ92F9
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Engagement on this is such that there’s a decent chance it gets back to the Lovevery people who made it. If so: * I largely like your kits and books and appreciate the work and aesthetic judgment that goes into them. * I hope you can abstract away from the valence of social media to at least ponder the substance of why many people are responding to this negatively, whether or not you ultimately agree with the critiques. * I regard neurobabble as a big attractor in the present memespace that is easy to fall into; this book was just a convenient outlet for my longstanding and semi-professional frustration with that attractor. * I stand by what I said but I do apologize for framing it rather meanly.