Movies, Disneyland, and AI art are all like artificial sweeteners.

They give you the delicious pop of authentic "sweetness" but in a way that is artificial and carefully built.

Your reptile brain is constantly tricked by it, even if you know how it works.

A lot of coffee shops now have AI generated imagery on screens; every time I see it out of the corner of my eye my reptile brain goes "That's sublimely pretty!!".

My forebrain keeps reminding my reptile brain that it's fundamentally hollow.

We've been doing this for as long as humans have been telling stories.

AI generated art just brings it to a new level.