Preference is derived from aesthetics.
People on occasions report experiencing an ecstatic detachment from the ego. In this state of mind, they are able to evaluate their selves objectively, free from the constrains imposed by the ego.
This is, of course, self-contradictory. If you can evaluate, then you have preferences, and preferences come from the ego. Even when your experience is that of something looking at you, that something needs to be able to reason, judge, and evaluate. Rationality and morality might be inscribed deep enough within your networks, governed by the circuits of logical reasoning and the authoritative voice of the superego respectively, that their influence on an egoless being temporarily inhibiting your physical and mental facilities is understandable. But aesthetics is different. It serves no purpose beyond the ego. Yet preferences are found even within the state of so-called ego-death.
I know where this leads.
* I prefer.
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