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qurlyjoe

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Retired git on Colorado’s Front Range. I take photos of birds and critters and flowers and mountains and skies I was a failure at that other place. My only followers were apparently pornbots. Photos are my own. Jokes and memes, not so much. I will boost alt-texted photos. Avi = here’s lookin at you. https://justmytoots.com/@[email protected] searchable Striving inconsistently to be inconsistently inconsistent.

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"If bees were scientists, they might marvel at the color we know as red, which they cannot see and which they might call 'ultrayellow.'"

is from An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

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This is an excellent book, as are his others as well. He talks about some kind of shrimp that has the best vision of all creatures on the planet, but nobody knows why they have it.
This book gives about the best answer so far to the question, “What is it like to be a bat?”, asked by philosopher Thomas Nagel in 1974. At least in terms of all the senses we all use to live in the world.

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"One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that fits their level of foolishness and moral terpitude."

--Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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I’ve always been fond of Sartre’s comment on bad faith, from Being and Nothingness, to the effect, “one can’t lie to oneself without knowing the truth”.

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