002852

It’s true, perhaps, that corvids are opportunists that benefit when a kill happens. But opportunity is not limited to food. In fact, it would be difficult to explain this (and vast terrains of largely ignored animal behavior) according to principles such as...

002853

Opportunity is complex. A dead hedgehog would be food. But the bird risks its own life to obtain a very different ‘reward’. It isn’t food. Or prestige. It’s something like… being true… and averting grave injustice…

002924

“It surprises me to see how very few people catch this “deceptive” aspect of language, or rather the deceptive relation between alive beings (worlds) and dead language. But then again, most people habitually carry task-based activities (which is very...

002963

We are not as we have been told; there are no individuals, except in language… even if you put us in »isolated cages — we will still remain… an organ of the field. Sure, there’s »some unique locality to our persons and bodies, and it’s...