Hello fellow languages users (robotic or not),<p>My name is Shehrose Mian -- though I've been spelling it more like Shehrose Mia(n) to capture the original name's phonetic intent (there are multiple 'n' sounds in the Urdu language, this one being the 'nun ghunna', a simple nasal aspiration (no directly vocalized tongue-palate contact)). So 'Mian' as 'Mia(n)' really sounds like 'Mia' as the character Squidward might articulate it (from the TV show Spongebob Squarepants).<p>In any case, I graduated from Brown University with a BA in philosophy, a period after which my philosophical rite of passage really began a la René Descartes -- trying to empty one's mind of preconceptions and coming to what is necessary even if new. Part of that journey included meditating on my family roots of Sufi Islam (a de-politicized Islam focused on loving self-criticism and devotion to an Abrahamic conception of God).<p>What I essentially realized was that the humanistic tradition of Islam (the Hadith, as it's called) and the more esoteric Word of God (the Qu'ran) together implied the concept of 'artistic nutrition'. Where the Hadith mentions a prophetic preference for beauty over obedience (the idea of aesthetic revolution as divinely permissible), the Qu'ran -- much like Zen Buddhism, broadly construed -- is adamant about avoiding intoxicants (those substances that cloud perceptual clarity, given the existence of objective Nature). Together, it looks as though disagreement with any Islamic authorities can be mediated by the concept of 'artistic nutrition'.<p>Encouraged by this line of reasoning, I recently founded a health-based record label focused on 'musical nutrition' (a sub-category of 'artistic nutrition'). The record label's blog, called Earcake Kitchen, can be found at this link I shared. The actual record label is called Earcake Sounds (found here: www.earcakesounds.bandcamp.com). The pacing of the blogging has been slowed down due to the development of a new website for the whole thing (I'm leaving, as Substack does not encrypt subscriber emails from the blogger in question). But perhaps I may post some private writings to help situate the idea more in secular terms.<p>That said, I am open and receptive to feedback about this all; I go in more detail on the blog. And speaking more frankly, I'm super excited to be able to do such work for its own sake. Even more, I'm motivated by doing what's logically healthful for all, because cognitive well-being seems to be one of those wholesome "combustions" whereby experiencing it for oneself inspires social fractals therein.<p>Gratefully,<p>Shehrose