I've been looking at food lately and the idea that some foods are "non-foods", usually if they are ultra-processed. We're talking about a lot of the packaged foods we see in supermarkets. One contention among many is that the ingredient lists that contain a lot of processed chemical ingredients (those we don't eat in and of themselves) are being emulsified into a stable product that is unnatural and thus interferes with our microbiome profile. Another is that we have a serious excess of protein with little to no fibre, the excess protein being metabolised in exactly the same way as carbohydrates (sugar-equivalents), into harmful excess body fat. Philosophically interesting is the distinction drawn between two different object values: Food-value and pleasure-value. The food-value of an object is determined by nature, ie. Our bodies. The aim of our bodies is to come into oikeiosis with (or assimilate) the food that we choose, so food-value is obvio...
Welcome to a blog. A drop in the ocean of human chatterings. If it's worthy of the divine, may it condense in the akashic clouds you are reading and precipitate along with others'. I have a private facebook group of the same name, but I've never really added many people to it given that it's private. I've sought feedback from a limited group of people, most notably the tireless Courtney Shipley of the Brisbane Stoics and equally tireless Stoicon speaker Judith Stove (who is also an assistant editor at Modern Stoicism ), and they have been generous in commenting. It's been a kind of scratchpad for some thoughts and I'll probably move some of them over to this blog eventually. We also share in Courtney's Facebook group Let's Read: Philosophy, Literature and Psychotherapy , a reading group with regular Zoom meetings. But I've been engaged in online philosophy for many years, and my activity has largely been focused on wielding social media ...