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What Counts as Seeing
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
The Umwelt concept can feel constrictive because it implies that every creature is trapped within the house of its senses. But to me, the idea is wonderfully expansive. It tells us that all is not as it seems and that everything we experience is but a filtered version of everything that we could experience. It reminds us that there is light in dark
... See moreEd Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
To represent the world around us, he says, artists already have to push against the limits of their Umwelt and “look under the hood.” That capacity helps him “think about animals having different perceptual worlds.”