by orchaeus | Feb 4, 2017 | Status Update
“The experience of deep empathy for animals and living places does not require anthropomorphizing them, but it may be natural for us to begin in that perspective as an aid to our formative understandings. We do not generally begin in a position of skill or...
by orchaeus | Feb 3, 2017 | Status Update
“Human minds collapse into blunt instruments along vectors of purpose. Many of the resulting forms, particularly those whose origins are outrage, vengeance or accounting… are inherently toxic and effectively useless for nearly all other purposes. Thus we...
by orchaeus | Feb 3, 2017 | Status Update
“As always, before we start looking very carefully it seems to be difficult for us to distinguish fish from whale from shark, because on the first glance they look similar. For a long time I welcomed every move towards “world unity” until I realized...
by orchaeus | Feb 3, 2017 | Status Update
“The purposive reasons for our interest in an activity generally determines the nature of the intelligences we may therefrom derive. Fisherman know the water, hunters know the woods, writers know language’s natures and features. But there are other vectors...
by orchaeus | Feb 3, 2017 | Status Update
“What you see around you, after subtracting human-created objects, is the face of the effect of the history of the universe, and the sun, on the environment of earth. The living face of Earth is one of the faces of the Sun. But it is not the only face, and it is...
by orchaeus | Feb 3, 2017 | Status Update
“All food is the result of sex.” — inscription
