Are you at all familiar with the work of John Vervaeke? Your metaphor about the sirens and lotuses (loti?) is a good one. However, particularly the last sections about how sometimes you benefit from listening to the sirens, as well as your emphasis that we have to walk through the lotus fields every moment of every day, sounds startlingly convergent with a phrase that John often repeats - "the very things that make you adaptively intelligent, also make you perennially prone to self-deception and self-destruction". There's a great deal going on in this phrase, to do with the complexity of reality and our finite ability to cope with it. But I can't help but note the similarities here. The lotus field is a powerful metaphor.
Are you at all familiar with the work of John Vervaeke? Your metaphor about the sirens and lotuses (loti?) is a good one. However, particularly the last sections about how sometimes you benefit from listening to the sirens, as well as your emphasis that we have to walk through the lotus fields every moment of every day, sounds startlingly convergent with a phrase that John often repeats - "the very things that make you adaptively intelligent, also make you perennially prone to self-deception and self-destruction". There's a great deal going on in this phrase, to do with the complexity of reality and our finite ability to cope with it. But I can't help but note the similarities here. The lotus field is a powerful metaphor.