Solid take on anthropocentric thinking. That line about "same structure, differnet clothes" is precisely what makes it so hard to escape because even when we think we're being rational or scientific, we still position ourselves at the center. Had a moment reading this where I realized how much energy goes into maintaining that centrality, so yeah the lightness makes sense once it drops.
I think I said something about we’re like ants on the side of the motorway — ants matter in the ecosystem, but the motorway isn’t intended for them.
It’s a hard one getting out of centralist thinking / feeling. But it’s like “seeing it, there’s no unseeing it.” And mostly I have a feeling and thought-stream of freedom and lightness.
But the big one is: what if humans are temporary? Deleted on death. Remembered for a while as information. Then pretty much gone.
Unless scientist Melvin Vopson gets the funding to prove his theory that information has mass.
Solid take on anthropocentric thinking. That line about "same structure, differnet clothes" is precisely what makes it so hard to escape because even when we think we're being rational or scientific, we still position ourselves at the center. Had a moment reading this where I realized how much energy goes into maintaining that centrality, so yeah the lightness makes sense once it drops.
I think I said something about we’re like ants on the side of the motorway — ants matter in the ecosystem, but the motorway isn’t intended for them.
It’s a hard one getting out of centralist thinking / feeling. But it’s like “seeing it, there’s no unseeing it.” And mostly I have a feeling and thought-stream of freedom and lightness.
But the big one is: what if humans are temporary? Deleted on death. Remembered for a while as information. Then pretty much gone.
Unless scientist Melvin Vopson gets the funding to prove his theory that information has mass.