Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing (Posthumanities)
Fully recognizing that non-human plants, animals and others have their own worlds which are fundamentally different and unknowable to us is to begin to end human exceptionalism and human supremacism.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
thing? Here we are, in this incomprehensibly large universe, on this one tiny moon around this one incidental planet, and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see
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