Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
James Bridleamazon.com
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
All of this is arising inside the long-established paradigm of distinction, of relating to the world as made up of discrete objects — of which each of us is one.
We are trained from infancy in this paradigm; our parents point to things and people and name them, they repeat and insist and take great pains to ensure we see these things as distinct fro... See more
We are trained from infancy in this paradigm; our parents point to things and people and name them, they repeat and insist and take great pains to ensure we see these things as distinct fro... See more
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
As the ability to step out of the singular umwelt of one's particular species and make contact with another shape of sensitivity, another style of sentience, which verges on—and I mean, let's keep holding all these things close—what for me is maybe the most profound sense of magic...
Sophie Strand • Magic as Radical Embedding in Our Web of Relations
I feel we're all slowly coalescing towards some kind of increasingly complex state of memetic symbiosis. That we're in the process of forming a thriving web of sensemakers, meta-theorists and systems poets who are all increasingly connected to communities of like minds in our bioregions and simultaneously attuned to a global network of shared insig... See more
Joe Lightfoot • The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets
Interconnectedness is one of the basic principles of life. Transience is another. They both go together to form a multileveled dynamic web of connections between living processes. What results is an emergent and persistent higher-level order from constantly changing lower-level interactions. The singers change, but the song remains the same.