Date: 2014-12-11 01:10 am (UTC)
... every exotic meat tastes like chicken suggests that the programmers were either lazy or not very imaginative ;)

Well, it could be an in-joke, I suppose.

I suppose most foods either taste like fungus, fruit, bean, mammal, fatty bird, lean bird/reptiles, fish, or jelly.

In a fantastic environment I wonder if there would be a couple more general categories to through in as well...

That's a great quote by Pedro Calderón, and not someone who I am that familiar with. I would make a good introduction to an essay I have been pondering with Zhuangzi butterfly, Descarte's demon, Putnam's 'Brain in a Vat', and Moravec and Bostrom's reality simulation...

A nice epistemological journey into a hypothetical ontology...
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