The most important need is to make sense of others. When we do that effectively, the very distinction between ‘ one’s own’ needs and ‘the other’s’ narrows.
It feels like the affects of joy, confidence and contentment. It is the feeling of one moment flowing into the next in a way which is neither boringly predictable nor disturbingly chaotic. It is the expansive embrace of the new that flow experiences achieve.
It would be great to see more threads on this.
As luck would have it, I happen to have just now been comparing an Austrian Gruner Veltliner to a Moravian one, and this required swallowing both (repeatedly).
I also feel slightly alien, although less so -when I’ve been drinking. That’s the extent of my agreement with you, but you may consider this response to be a (virtual) “knowing glance”.
I was commenting on the idea that a philosopher (in general) might have come outside the cave. Through the practice of analytical thought.
I’m not familiar with Plato’s writings on this. But if it were that easy to come out of the cave, then there would be lots of people outside, not all philosophers.
Besides, that was not the substance of my reply. Which is that kind monsters are not Infact monsters. And I gave a deeper explanation too.