why we should

“We are artifacts designed by natural selection,” Daniel Dennett wrote, to which Fodor said no. “Darwin’s idea is much deeper, much more beautiful, and appreciably scarier: We are artifacts designed by selection in exactly the sense in which the Rockies are artifacts designed by erosion; which is to say that we aren’t artifacts and nothing designed us. We are, and…

Reposted from substack from May 2023. This world we live is a practice, where we make up things together in order to organize ourselves. All the world is a child at play. Evolution cares not at all, or at least, not at the moment at all, not yet, how:- rational, or, reasonable, or, crazy, or, fantastic, or, believable, or, even,…

Wherein I try to define my terms (see chatgpt etymology for this term/terminus/terminology plex using my own contexts and examples (of themselves). The major context assumes an animal life’s logic, point of view (POV) and scale. The essay is also about those as limits to the understanding we have as animals when we are looking out and about as prey or…

We often try to impose the world on reality. (this is most marked in case of narcissistic ‘sweorlds’) However this imposition is impossible because the world does not exist, and reality does not and can not care. Still, many of us try, which is the first mistake we make which allows us to learn about reality, but repeated the same…

Imaginary conversation with a dumbfounded respondent as I try to get what I mean by 'worlding' across as a framework fo the self/world ratio or Janus dance. Look, is romance a risk? (yes) and when you move to take that risk, i mean, have you always rejected that risk? (no) so, when you take the risk on in a romance,…

To be a moral person requires empathy. It does not require a morality. Narcissists use moral principles to game their local system all the time. Why does being moral not require morality? Becasue reality does not care about reality. It has no bones to pick. It does not care what we do with reality, or don’t. Caring about reality is…