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The Anthropocene — a concept that, the story goes, Paul Crutzen blurted out spontaneously in Mexico in 2000 — is understood as an epoch in which the effects of human action register at the geological scale. In other words, capitalism and colonialism should be recognized as forces equivalent to tectonic plates.
Deep Time Sickness | NOEMA
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Success is somebody else’s failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. No, I do not wish you success. I don’t even want to talk about it. I want to talk about failure.
American Rhetoric: Ursula K. Le Guin - A Left-Handed Commencement Address
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As the philosopher Thomas Nagel noted, it must “be like” something to be a bat, but what that is we cannot even imagine—because we have no idea what it would be like to observe the world through a kind of sonar. We can imagine what it might be like for a human to do this (perhaps by closing our eyes and picturing a sort of echolocation point cloud of our surroundings), but that’s not what it must be like for a bat, with its bat mind.
What an Octopus’s Mind Can Teach Us About AI’s Ultimate Mystery
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