186! Everyday and Existential Comfort Zones

What's so wrong with using pictures in menus? And how do you feel about exploring new ideas that break your concept of reality? [22:48]

This week, Jess and Joey talk about the fabric of the universe, cookbooks and menus, painting a sensory picture, quantum consciousness, Spacetime, and butt donuts. They don’t talk about A$AP Rocky.

references

• This is your brain on '80s anti-drug commercials
• Revisiting our epic potato growing conversation from way back in Critical Nonsense 183!
• Devil Wears Prada "stuff" scene
• Bouillabaisse
• Contra
• Netflix: How to Change Your Mind
• Cognitive scientist Donald D. Hoffman on the problems with spacetime
• Spacetime
• Nick Bostrom and the simulation hypothesis