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Thomas
The things we call intelligence have transformed us from small, slow, physically weak apes to the solar system’s most lethal apex predators. However, when we ask whether other animals are intelligent, we’re not usually asking what capacities or kinds of bodies were advantageous in their evolutionary past. We’re really asking whether they do things... See more
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
“Just as the Black Death gave way to the enlightenment in Europe I was playing with this idea that climate change could give way to the delightenment.”
Tristan Zimmermann
Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Exploring the formation of the myth/metaphor layer in Causal Layered Analysis through embodied cognition, revealing how shared metaphors evolve into myths that shape worldviews and futures.
jfsdigital.org“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place... See more
The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
The easiest way to feel the absolute value of something is to imagine, as vividly as possible, its disappearance.
We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth
Causal Layered Analysis: An Integrative and Transformative Theory and Method
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) is a transformative futures research theory/method that integrates multiple layers of analysis to provoke critical thinking and create alternative visions for policy development and decision-making.
metafuture.org“When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.”
➪ Robert Harrison
➪ Robert Harrison
Steyn Viljoen • Beautiful, boring, and without soul
Spinoza in a T-Shirt
thenewinquiry.com