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Image by Fiona Clare Gillogly (from her essay on Birding Journals in Birding Magazine)

In this walk and talk, one of the first things that happens once I reach the gardens is that, while I am talking about coyotes in the gardens, a siren ’causes’ on of them to begin their characteristic and ancient vocalizations.

In relating with living places, creatures and ‘Nature’, we must learn to listen very carefully before ‘speaking’ with a relational action. I explore the problems that arise in the behaviors I and others engage in when we are not paying careful attention to the milieu in which we are interacting with other creatures. I also explore recent arguments about human brains (i.e. social simulation / self as simulation hypothesis), and a few other possible explanations (i.e humans / whales as ‘summation lenses’ that integrate and unify a vast array of living symbiotic intelligences in the biosphere).

It’s not a disorganized talk, but it wanders wildly in the topics that arise as I consider what happens when I throw 5 peanuts to 5 crows in my neighborhood…