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Despite Berry’s veneration of his ancestors, he can be unsparing about their sins. “I am forever being crept up on and newly startled by the realization that my people established themselves here by killing or driving out the original possessors, by the awareness that people were once bought and sold here by my people, by the sense of the violence they have done to their own kind and to each other and to the earth,” he wrote in his 1968 essay “A Native Hill.”
Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age
newyorker.com
Simply put, the brain needs to model a ‘self’ in order to predict future states that the ‘self’ might inhabit. Along this line of thought, [Friston (2018)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X#bib0300) suggested that self-awareness arises whenever an organism generates predictions about the consequences of its actions, and thus aims to minimize the *expected* surprise resulting from those actions.
From Many to (N)one: Meditation and the Plasticity of the Predictive Mind
sciencedirect.com
But now, through this serendipitous mass co-habitation— the reverend everly thomas We found ourselves (like flowers from which placed rocks had just been removed) being restored somewhat to our natural fullness.
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
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