Re/Symbiosis

Reimagining our future with humans and nonhumans.

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1. Reimagining our future with humans and nonhumans Re:Symbiosis
2. 2. Anthropocene The 6th Great Mass Extinction
3. 3. ● Co2 ● Damming ● Extinctions ● Land Use
4. 4. But it’s not just “non-humans who are impacted”
5. 5. “We are the asteroid”
6. 6. “We are the asteroid”
7. 7. “We are the asteroid”
8. 8. “We are the asteroid” “We are the asteroid”
9. 9. The Severing + Agrilogistics
10. 10. Agrilogistics
11. 11. Anthropocene The 6th Great Mass Extinction
12. 12. Anthropocene The 6th Great Mass Extinction
13. 13. Anthropocene The 6th Great Mass Extinction
14. 14. Anthropocene The 6th Great Mass Extinction
15. 15. Nature as other
16. 16. The Infinite Loop of Agriculture 10,000 + Years of the Agriculture — Optimising for quantity and efficiency. — Short term optimisation leads to latching on to bugs — It’s easier to improve agricultural models than to change them
17. 17. Agrilogistics
18. 18. Agrilogistics
19. 19. Agrilogistics
20. 20. The Great Severing https://www.dropbox.com/s/i6lh6q6i u01pbca/Screenshot%202019–04–3 0%2009.00.00.png?dl=0
21. 21. Us vs. Them
22. 22. The Symbiotic Real
23. 23. Bacteria to Human Where did we come from?
24. 24. 堆 Heaps 堆 Soritories Paradox
25. 25. Soritories Paradox
26. 26. Soritories Paradox
27. 27. What if things like worlds, cultures, intelligence, empathy, gender are much more lightweight and leaky than we ever imagined?
28. 28. — Mutually exclusive — Collectively exhaustive — Unambiguous
29. 29. — Mutually exclusive — Collectively exhaustive — Unambiguous
30. 30. Neuroscientist discovers the neural correlates of emotion in rats and humans.
31. 31. Logic & The Uncanny Valley
32. 32. Traditional Machine Learning (Symbolic AI) failed because perfect rules can never grasp “heaps”.
33. 33. Deep Learning: from rules and logic to “you know it when you see it”.
34. 34. — Mutually exclusive — Collectively exhaustive — Unambiguous
35. 35. — Mutually exclusive — Collectively exhaustive — Unambiguous
36. 36. What if things like worlds, cultures, intelligence, empathy, gender are much more lightweight and leaky than we ever imagined?
37. 37. Subscendence
38. 38. “Your community is made of many separate parts each of which are important, but none have significant value by themselves. The whole (community) is more important, more useful, more beautiful, or in some ways “greater” than all of the separate parts standing on their own.”
39. 39. The whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. The whole is always less than the sum of it’s parts.
40. 40. Female American Carnivore Herbivore Right-Handed Book Reader Wavy Haired
41. 41. unsevering
42. 42. RE-Symbiosis
43. 43. RE-Symbiosis History now depends on our ability to bring ecological awareness into our algorithms. Every action we make matters more than it ever did. But yet, no single action matters, we need collective action. We need solidarity with humans and nonhumans. We must stay with the trouble.
44. 44. RE-SymbiosisIt’s not our fault, but it is our responsibility.
45. 45. Earth-centred not human-centred. Life is ambiguous, not life as prepackaged Expand human flourishing not Exploit human bugs Solidarity with beings, not human exceptionalism
46. 46. References Robert Sapolsky Timothy Morton Blaise Arcas Jan van Hoof Donna Haraway Francis de Waal Nick Lane Lynn Margolis Francis Crick Ed Yong Jaak Panksepp Jordan Peterson Eric Weinstein