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Physics informs us that relativity exists between everything in the universe. Flows of information travel in all possible directions by wave and particle, force and probability. So it is the same for LiFE on Earth. Biology informs us that LiFE is alive with flows of information within and between cells, and between beings, using a…
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Symbio wenWen ~ PIE root for wound. The deliberate harm of life-giving symbiotic processes. To knowingly block, engineer, or interfere with these processes in any life-negative way. Once it is done, harmful consequences may be partially or fully unknowable. To commit symbiowen is to risk much, though may be justified, arguably, as an ethic of…
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I’m very happy to inform readers that a Chapter introducing my neologism symbioethics has been published in a new anthology by Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, Spain. I begin by setting the word within the general canon of environmental ethics or ecophilosophy, and then I call for more research into areas of symbiosis and symphysica as…
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I offer alnasense as the sum of all physical senses of all living beings on Earth at any one moment in time. In science, the word multimodality is used when describing the combined physical senses that lead to a mental interpretation and an overall cognition of external stimuli. I offer anthrosense as an alternative. Feelings…
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In honour of the work of Joy Bear and Richard Thomas, who coined the word petrichor in 1964 to describe the aroma earth emits when rain falls*, I offer potamichor. ποτάμι Potámi ~ greek ~ river. Ichor ~ The sacred blood of the Greek Gods. Potamichor ~ a familiar odour of rivers. Dimethyl sulfide**, along with other…
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A wilder patch of vegetation sandwiched between two commercial orchard barns, seen through a glassless window. Photo by me. The following essay was submitted to the editors of the Rewilding Handbook, but I was unhappy with the extreme and unnecessarily negative comments by certain peer reviewers on my brief critiques of British and, especially, privatised…
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My neologism of the day and an increasingly important aspect of human/human and human/nature relatedness during this Earth Crisis (Anthropocene), to change, and to outcomes, is prophesuum. ~~~ Prophesy – the verb – to say that you believe something will happen in the future (Cambridge) as opposed to Prophecy – the noun – a statement…
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There is a habit by most (not all) science-oriented academics and writers of analysing the present and simply adding external changes (temps, economics) to predict futures. In this way, they are missing out on the potential of shifting human values – a moral imagination deficit. — 🧬 Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) July 21, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Moral,…
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