#anthropocentric — Public Fediverse posts

While We are happy to see folks rally up against " #AI " and celebrate the things that differentiate us from statistical art laundering machines, it's always a bit alienating to see the common shortpaw for that being " #human " / " #humanity ".

Not only is that further reinforcing #anthropocentric narratives that we should really do away with, but also there are many folks who may not feel represented by that #label .

There's folks into #transhumanism who choose to no longer have this label apply to them, there's #therian folk who are just like that.

And then there's so, so many folks who get their humanity denied their whole lives because they are black or otherwise have an unwante- We mean diverse #race or #ethnicity , because they are #transgender , #gay , #aromantic / #asexual ("wanting sex/ a romantic partner is part of the human experience") or otherwise deviate from the cisgender heterosexual (white) man, are #ActuallyAutistic or otherwise #nerodiverse , have a #MentalIllness , are #disabled , We could go on.

Where's the #intersectionality in this? Is there really no better unifying criteria here than the result vy which the #patriarchy justifies its #abuse ?

We just wish to contribute to projects that make stuff better for all of us without worrying if We're "human" enough.

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the problem with people:

"Her favorite animals were lions, some of which she hunted herself."

from a radio feature about #Karen #Blixen on RBB #Radio 3

#anthropocentric
#kill #killWhatYouLove

@rbb

“Expecting #intelligent #beings with alternative origins to use #languages like ours betrays an #anthropocentric view of the cosmos.” aeon.co/essays/why-a...

Why alien languages could be f...

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Well, I think I understand what you're implying there, and would definitely agree that information is not enough (fluffy?).

Lifestyles, habits, and world-views have to change too, and for those, more info is not what is generally needed. Pain & loss are unfortunate requirements, aka "learning the hard way" through experience instead of a lecture.

Given that we will do more to avoid pain, standing on the mainstream sidelines is what the comfy majority do. That area is constantly shrinking though, so that's one thing in favor of motivating serious change.

I think that short term mentality also is impeding the solutions we're talking about, which are by nature quite long term, generational aspects. We will have to modify religious world-views, #nationalist /economic, and scientific ones as well, all notoriously slow to change & adapt, even though inevitable in the long run.

These institutions suffer from the lack of #openaccess & #opensource properties in duplicitous manners. They are top-down, closed #hierarchy, #reductionist, as well as exclusionary & rivalrous.

Linear thinking & toy models rule the day because they are faster & easier to implement, and very often do no noticeable harm, or if they do, it's only to a small, powerless minority (or take lifetimes to accumulate into a problem).

This has an #evolutionary basis, so solutions will have to have special characteristics of 'over-ride' (power) while remaining constrained in both scope and time ( #decentralized & periodic). It will require the kind of #trust that #inequality and #plutocracy won't allow.

We'll need to be #interconnected, co-dependent, and often vulnerable. #Network forms must replace #Corporate organizational framing (note that even NGOs & NPOs take the post-agrarian revolution, city-state + Ptolemaic/ #anthropocentric hierarchy).

So a re-write of the narrative is in order. This is quite natural and repeats regularly throughout history. There are software updates & patches, and then there are entirely new apps & devices (driven by hardware advances, or tech in general).

Kuhn has clear ideas about how #science navigates these changes. Puzzle-solving ~/= bug patches. We are well beyond a saturation of patches; it's time for a paradigm shifting philosophy & protocol. My hack at this is called the #Information_Paradigm.

We are, in essence, needing something that can easily appear contradictive-- the early adopters of new paradigms are a very different crowd than the mass crowds that will follow them, based on emotional or fast-brain processes. Getting them onboard takes a different set of enticements than the post-pivot criticality will for the rest of civilization.

IOW, the 'fluffy' stuff comes back as partly but critically necessary, which is why we can't eliminate it completely. Leaders emerge across all scales, and need to be able to find common ground with their distant cohorts, rather than competitive isolation or aggression for individual benefit.

These leaders, and the groups/networks they represent, are very diverse. A default to "Open" principles means, among other things, looking for shared desires & interests to build #cooperation on, rather than immediately dividing along lines of difference.

Remember, the #earth has had several mass #extinction events: one caused by #algae, one caused by #trees, one caused by an #asteroid, and several caused by earth itself in the form of #volcanoes. Quit acting like earth and life are so precious and delicate, and that #humans are so alien and uniquely terrible. We are doing what #life has always done, and we can not end this planet. To think so is #egotistical and #anthropocentric.

#chaoticNeutral

#art, #cultures and cross materialistic #metabolism?

processes that in and of themselves imagine ways of input which produces meaning-free (non #anthropocentric) #imaginations other than them which were used to begin with?