It has always struck me deeply that the varieties of life on Earth represent a unified assembly of streams of direct physical intimacy with process, and, as such, are something like a living language of relation. It looks, to my eye, as if each organism is at once a sense and a way of sensing, and that their sum represents the physical ‘equipment’ of (a) planetary (trans)sentience.

The pseudo-darwinism of the evolution philosophers has been problematical in that it suggests that nearly everything we see is mechanistically produced, and that this is the natural result of the processes we call selection. Yet this cannot be either the beginning or the end of the proximate complexity of life on Earth.

Again, it looks (to me) like the world reaches inward as a unity, into the diverse and intimate relation with nearly every possible stream of process… and, yet dissatisfied, engenders a continuum of developmental interbeing which, over time, both enriches the existing library of processes and continually elaborates the accessible sophistication of organismal sentience and relation with(in) them.