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Category Archives: nature
We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions — E.O.Wilson
excerpt 1:Very few species, however, have made the leap from merely social to eusocial, “eu-” meaning true. To qualify as eusocial, in Wilson’s definition, animals must live in multigenerational communities, practice division of labor and behave altruistically, ready to sacrifice … Continue reading
Better Than the Bird’s Eye View
Google Maps | Space Bonus: “They are wild things.”
Just Sayin’ – once again
Talk Origins – central counter-creationist resource 12. Nobody has ever seen a new species evolve. Speciation is probably fairly rare and in many cases might take centuries. Furthermore, recognizing a new species during a formative stage can be difficult, because … Continue reading
Water and Animals and Humans
The self is a metaphor. We can decide to limit it to our skin, our person, our family, our organization, or our species. We can select its boundaries in objective reality As the systems theorists see it, our consciousness illuminates … Continue reading
Posted in cultural contradictions, nature, podcast, psychological anthropology
Tagged artist Kate Fiorito, ecology, water
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Systematic Ways to Look at Seeming Chaos
'Flying Dutchman' Draft Film Trailer by Alan Nguyen and Sutu from Alan Nguyen on Vimeo. This Electrified Pirate Ship Was Made with a Virtual Reality Paintbrush h/t Peter Kirn at Create Digital Music
Posted in art, artists, creative captures, nature, visual story
Tagged chaos, clouds
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Morphing Fractals
Eternal One, Mighty One, Holy El, God autocrat self-originate, incorruptible, immaculate, unbegotten, spotless, immortal, self-perfected, self-devised, without mother, without father, ungenerated, exalted, fiery, just, lover of men, benevolent, compassionate, bountiful, jealous over me, patient one, most merciful. Eli, eternal, mighty … Continue reading
No Hand Waving, please!
Evolutionary Argument Against Reality I believe that consciousness and its contents are all that exists. Spacetime, matter and fields never were the fundamental denizens of the universe but have always been, from their beginning, among the humbler contents of consciousness, … Continue reading
Posted in nature, psychology, science
Tagged cognition, consciousness, Donald Hoffman
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World’s Whole Frame
The Wild Garden – NOWNESS from NOWNESS on Vimeo. Another year rolls into spring. Time to get the hands dirty. I have a bohemian flower garden to tend to. An Anatomy of the World The First Anniversary WHEN that rich … Continue reading
Posted in creative captures, nature, personal, poetry, Religion
Tagged flowers, gardening
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The Very Soaked, Very Dry, World
Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA, is 950 feet above sea level. We could probably take tens of thousands of climate refugees. I do not know what the effect of climate cahnge will be on the great lakes. Hey, I can look … Continue reading
By Hand
A Thousand Hands Ago from S Ensby on Vimeo. The dramatic form is reached when the vitality which has flowed and eddied round each person fills every person with such vital force that he or she assumes a proper and … Continue reading
Posted in art, artists, cinema, creative captures, nature, philosophy
Tagged boat building, James Joyce
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Slow, Steady, and Permanent
Your half hour will be well spent in a close engagement with the thought of Mr. Varela. Recovering Common Sense The tacit assumption behind the varieties of cognitive realism (cognitivism, emergence, and the society of mind) has been that the … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, nature, psychology
Tagged artificial intelligence, cybernetics, enactivism, Varela
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Whales Under Northern Lights
bonus: bonus 2: I would like someday to be a dolphin.
Posted in nature, visual story
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Brain and Culture
V.S. Ramachandran (Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute) – lecture begins at … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, nature, psychology
Tagged cognition, E.O. Wilson, neuroscience, V.S. Ramachandran
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Deep Ecology Foundation
The Deep Ecology Platform 1. The well-being and flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth have value in themselves (synonyms: inherent worth, intrinsic value, inherent value). These values are independent of the usefulness of the nonhuman world for human … Continue reading
Pagan Waterworld
Jaison deCaires Taylor – Underwater Sculpture A must see artist’s web site.
As A Kite (or Plane) Flies
“There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds, and it is characteristic of the system that basic error propagates itself.” -Gregory Bateson Incarnate in a human body paradoxically aware of itself as a … Continue reading
Posted in Gregory Bateson, nature, play, psychological anthropology
Tagged anthropology
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Close Encounter
Sperm Whale Encounter from Howard Hall on Vimeo. h/t Howard Hall