On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
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On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
The teeming hordes of living things on Earth, not only in space but in time, are actually all one massive, single organism just as certainly as each one of us (in our own minds) seems to be a distinct human being throughout our limited lifetime... Each of us is, equally, an independent living human and also just one utterly minute, utterly brief un... See more
Maria Popova • Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Mosscap gave Dex a reproachful look. “All parasites have value, Sibling Dex. Not to their hosts, perhaps, but you could say the same about a predator and a prey animal. They all give back—not to the individual but to the ecosystem at large. Wasps are tremendously important pollinators. Birds and fish eat bloodsucks.”
Becky Chambers • A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book (Monk & Robot 2)
It means that our testing processes and analyses are culturally biased in ways we don’t recognize even when we do them on other humans, let alone on other species.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
He wondered whether certain animals might not share some kind of ‘group mind’, which he described as a ‘sort of psychic blueprint between members of a species’. Might not all species, he suggested, be linked together in a ‘cosmic mind’ that was capable of carrying evolutionary information through time and space?