Remember, we are all in this together — If you don’t know that there’s a war going on in Europe, let me enlighten you. Interestingly, the war started after the Covid pandemic had calmed down a bit. Maybe we in the Global North can only cope with one emergency at a time. Of course, there are other wars…

Entanglement in quantum physics demonstrates the interaction between observer and observed which show how understanding reality as waves of interference gives us a better picture of the co-arising nature of existence than the atomistic view of discrete ‘objects’. When I walked home this evening, I noticed a buzzing sound. And…

This is really in homage to Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰 And to Jill Bolte Taylor. And to Iain McGilchrist and to The Brain that Changes Itself … … and to Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, and to The Embodied Mind. And to all the other brilliant and curious…

By admitting that values, as conditions that are “good for” different entities and systems, do exist, independently of those entities and systems, we can make sense of the idea that there can be a centre of value outside the valuer. …

Not only is the more-than-human world living ‘nature’, but also the physical matter (rock, soil, water, air), energy (light, heat) and natural laws (gravity, thermodynamics) that allow its existence. It is not only the boundary between human and sentient animal, or human and living creature that I seek to question…

The key question, then, is what is the practice of philosophy, given the state we find ourselves in? What is the practice, the way of doing things, given our current state? ❓ 🍤 Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰 I found out how to insert emojis! I’m like a learner driver (hence the…

This time, a beautiful philosopher who I quote in my book (who wrote a lot about our relationship with and obligations towards other animals): “… trying to fit together different thought-systems that deal with different aspects of the world … is a piece of philosophical plumbing” Midgley, Mary, The Myths…

Humans co-arise interdependently with all systems, and our impacts affect both global and microscopic, terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric. Let’s focus on one thing today: how to live within tension. The main tension we will focus on today is between our interdependence with other humans and our desire to be right…

Day Seven. Here’s the quote: The ecological emergency includes much more than climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, habitat destruction, and all the associated impacts that fragment and threaten to create collapse among the systems that created and sustain us. It also includes fragmentation of…