29 MAY 2025 by ideonexus
Este es el Sol
Este es el brote que crece de la semilla y se oriente al Sol...
Esta es la semilla que viene del arbol y cae en la caca
que cayo al suelo a los pies de la zorra
que callada achecha a la incauta serpiente
que abre su boca y caza la iguana
que lanza su lengue y apresa a la arana
que teje su tela para atrapar al bicho
que se sienta en la hoja y come la flor
que epieza a brotar creciendo en el arbol
que hace su comida con la luz del Sol. 1 
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noteshis is the sprout that grows from the seed and faces the sun...
This is the seed that comes from the tree and falls into the poop
that fell to the ground at the feet of the fox
that silently stalks the unsuspecting snake
that opens its mouth and hunts the iguana
that darts its tongue and catches the spider
that spins its web to catch the bug
that sits on the leaf and eats the flower
that begins to sprout, growing on the tree
that makes its food with the light of the Sun.
26 AUG 2024 by ideonexus
Quantifying Animal Farmed Animal Suffering with Neuron Co...
The question of what weight to give to human interests and to nonhuman animal interests is difficult.67 Humans are literally outweighed by farmed animals: land-based farmed animals have 70 percent more biomass than all humans.68 Land-based farmed animals also outnumber humans greatly, by a factor of three to one, with 25 billion chickens, 1.5 billion cattle, 1 billion sheep, and 1 billion pigs alive at any one time; farmed fish outnumber us, at a very rough estimate, ten to one, with around 1... 1 notes
notes14 OCT 2023 by ideonexus
How the Human's Short Lifespan Influences Their Behavior
Humans are the most adaptable and ambitious people among the common races. They have widely varying tastes, morals, and customs in the many different lands where they have settled. When they settle, though, they stay: they build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span, but a human nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach o f any single human’s memory.... 1 notes
notesFrom a fantasy description of the species.
23 SEP 2023 by ideonexus
This is Real
This is real. Your eyes reading this text, your hands, your breath, the time of day, the place where you are reading this—these things are real. I’m real too. I am not an avatar, a set of preferences, or some smooth cognitive force; I’m lumpy and porous, I’m an animal, I hurt sometimes, and I’m different one day to the next. I hear, see, and smell things in a world where others also hear, see, and smell me. And it takes a break to remember that: a break to d...Folksonomies: attention mindfulness
Folksonomies: attention mindfulness
1 17 OCT 2021 by ideonexus
Philosophers are "Loafers"
We were not originally made to be learned; we have become so perhaps by a sort of abuse of our organic faculties, and at the expense of the State, which nourishes a host of loafers whom vanity has adorned with the name of “philosophers.” Nature created us all solely to be happy—yes, all, from the crawling worm to the eagle that soars out of sight in the clouds. That is why she has given all animals some share of natural law, a share of greater or less delicacy according to the needs of ...Folksonomies: commentary
Folksonomies: commentary
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notes17 OCT 2021 by ideonexus
Humans Trained Themselves in Symbolic Thought
From animals to man, the transition is not violent, as good philosophers will admit. What was man before the invention of words and the knowledge of tongues? An animal of his species, who, with much less native instinct than the others, whose king he then considered himself to be, could not be distinguished from the ape and from the rest, except as the ape itself differs from the other animals; which means, by a face giving promise of more intelligence. Reduced to the bare “intuitive knowle...Folksonomies: philosophy empiricism
Folksonomies: philosophy empiricism
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notes28 FEB 2021 by ideonexus
Evolutionary Origins of Play
There are several kinds of speculation about the origins of play:
(a) The first holds that play originates as a mutation and therefore an amelioration of dangerous adaptational conJicts. According to John Allman in Evolving Brains, this play mutation constitutes a pre-existing genetic function.
(b) Some scholars claim the most fundamental conJict arises between dangerous and mutually threatening opponents. In studies of such conJicts, 80 percent of the time creatures from ants to mammals ac... 1 notes
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