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I wrote it.

It still boggles the mind how many people continue to buy into this nonsense, and it’s worse now all these years later as millions upon millions of believers are simply migrating their religious beliefs over into QAnon conspiracies.

There are, but it really has nothing to do with novelty and familiarity. It's all just basic reward mechanism and what drives the biggest dopamine hit for us / reduces cortisol and adrenaline levels. It's all related to experience. How we interpret new experiences against past experience. How that stimulates us intellectually and emotionally. How that triggers good and bad memories from childhood, etc. Even experiencing the same place over and over and over again some more is going to be novel each and every time due to the way it IS a different experience each time... given how we've changed and evolved since the last time we experienced it... or even just given how we happen to be feeling that day, how we slept the night before, or what we most recently ate... every single time is a new experience even if we've been to the place before. Your question is making too many assumptions and is really ill-formed. Every experience is novel. Novelty is not on/off binary, and instead exists along a spectrum of extremely novel or barely.

Have you read the previous 6 page's of this thread? Because we seem to be going round in circles. The only purpose of life is to live and that's only on an individual bases; the universe expands but that's not it's purpose, it's merely the stage for you to find your purpose, much like religion/culture. An NDE is also a personal experience, there was nothing magical about mine. Gathering knowledge doesn't automatically confer understanding,

Yes, probably. I have been going through quite a few student theses recently and my brain just blanks out things that do not make sense for self-preservation, I think.

. The question ... as such ... is stupid ... friend ... . And your warning is not far away from that point ... my friend ... . In fact ... both ... have the same nature ... . Existence does not know your so-called believes ... . Belives mean ... I don't know ... but I will pretend to the world and to myself ... that ... I know ... . If you don't know ... be humble and simple ... and just say ... I don't know ... don't lie to yourself ... you're the only victim ... . By saying it ... you're giving the first step ... for real knowledge ... which always ... comes from you ... which always ... comes through you ... . But your so-called society ... teaches you ... as a mice is taught ... to like borrowed things ... to think not from oneself ... but according to what others think about you and about the world ... . You like borrowed knowledge ... it's easier ... isn't it ... . I won't tell any believes ... Is it not enough what the society does tell you in form of stupid believes ... ? . I have no belives ... but ... I have Life ... . In fact ... I'm Life ... as you are Life ... too ... but your understanding still ... is ... far away of reaching this point ... . You have stupid believes ... and ... I have Life ... . I give you the truth ... rather ... friend ... . But you prefer the fake coin ... you prefer ... having stupid believes ... . Because ... in order to know truth ... you must experience it ... it is not a so-called a priori idea or conclusion ... . And ... what do you know about Life ... In fact ... ? . Your thinking about Life is just like the thinking of a blind man about Light ... . A blind Man ... can have ... a Belief about what Light is ... Still ... he will miss the experience ... because ... Light is an experience ... it is not something ... which ... can be taught about ... You don't need believes to know Light ... what you need is ... eyes ... . It is what it is ... Everything ... which is under the sun ... is what it is. Your believes are pseudo creations ... . I stop ... if you tell me ... . If you believe in the sun existence ... ?

I get just how unimaginative you people are.