Finding a more useful umwelt
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Finding a more useful umwelt
The idea that every organism has its ontology (in the elevator sense) was prefigured in Jakob von Uexküll’s (1934) concept of the organism’s Umwelt, the behavioral environment that consists of all the things that matter to its well-being.
Daniel C Dennett • From Bacteria to Bach and Back
augmented attention: the use of tools to widen and extend our view across time and space, so that we may become more attuned to the broader scale of the world we are entangled with.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Walking lets you read the world — and much like the slow, contemplative mental processes involved in reading a book, the pace with which one moves through the world while walking allows for a different, deliberative kind of seeing . You notice more. You think more.
"The World Reveals Itself to Those Who Walk"
All of these people seemed to either view their environments with more clarity or simply take firsthand details more seriously than most. They considered the world more critically. They constantly used, refined, and trusted their intuition.
Jay Acunzo • Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work
An Immense World argues that the world around us is deep and richer than we know because we are confined by the constraints of our own sensors. Other animals operate under different constraints and so perceive a very different world than what we are familiar with. And even everyday things, a street or a plant or a featureless body of water, are ric... See more