#anthropocentric — Public Fediverse posts

@firefly "The neighborhood was built on land that was once a natural preserve".
First, they destroy a nature reserve, the damaged rest of an eco-system becomes unstable, then they spray insecticides via robot in the last rest of nature ... that's so creepy! (Where I live, both would be illegal)

#anthropocene #anthropocentric #biodiversityCrisis

The Animal Collaboration Guide is a practical resource for exploring systemic risk through the perspectives of non-human species. It’s a fieldwork method for decentring human bias, so participants can give an “animal testimony” as part of the project. Speaking as their non-human kin, participants noticed the pressures their species lives with and put into words how risk shows up in its daily life. 

https://zenodo.org/records/20624201/files/ACG_1.0.0_Digital_LQ.pdf?download=1

#naturecentrism #systemicrisk #anthropocentric #rivertone

Here's my #minecraft #paper #plugin to reduce the #anthropocentric
behavior of #videogame animals (cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, horses, etc).

Now:
* gather in herds
* flee from players, hostile mobs, wolves, etc
* herds tighten up at night
* players can no longer breed them;
* animals reproduce if plenty of space, fresh water, no danger, and access to grass

This stops players from treating animals as pure game mechanics w/ huge mob farms.

https://github.com/ralphhogaboom/TrophicHerds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-_gOXy-Ye8

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

When we say #climate #justice, we mean equal rights for all people on the globe in the context of #global #warming. We do not mean the globe itself. We do not mean #justice for dolphins, foxes, and butterflies. We do not mean our living #planet.
#Anthropocentric thinking is at the heart of our #environmental #problem. Unfortunately, it is the basis of our Western #culture.

“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...

@RustyBertrand @lednaBM @TimWardCam @FosseLeo

This is funny because of -

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- what the OP said.

This self-centeredness presents as Ptolemaic, #anthropormorphic, #anthropocentric, etc. in our economies, societies, and
#science theories.

Imagine describing a theory as an adult, for other adults (as opposed to nursery rhymes) that went with "depending on whether we observe or not" rather than "depending on whether the paths have the same #symmetry or not".

This is equivalent to your friend carefully aligning their hands to create a shadow-dragon on the wall and inviting you into the room to see what they've created. You step in front of their hands, looking at the wall, and saying "I only see a big blob shadow."

Then a 3rd person (a #quantum mechanic) describes what took place as "the act of observation changed the outcome of the 2-hand superposition."

@witchescauldron @hamishcampbell

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.

What is good for the human species is generally not so good for all the other species. #evolution #extinctions #anthropocentric #species #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

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

@defrisselle @apodoxus @philosophy That works ok as long as an #anthropocentric view is maintained.

Every 'dimension' has its own timeline, and every existential entity has its own clock that measures 'time'.

Removing why a thing is moving through '4D space', where it's going, and what other things it will meet along the way, with what results, does not leave much room for understanding or predicting anything that has #dynamics over #time.

Time & space are #measurement tools that help us discuss & collectively navigate our interactions with the world.

@jmkorhonen
1st, a comment as to the number of tweets.. are your server text limits that small? It's much easier to read when not chopped up into sound bytes. :)

I did not see 'scale' mentioned. For example, what knowledge medium is used for communicating the common desire of 1 resource? Word of mouth in a village? Front page ads in the NYT? I think it's important to include it.

The formation of #society IS concentration of #power. It is the one power that rules all others, forming from consensus & unity. How that power is structured means everything, as you've delineated.

The evolution of #systems is such that, when initial structures are no longer functioning for the survival of the whole, the internal flow distribution will reconfigure in a collective phase change. "Redistributing" is not as efficient as correct, #resilient initial distribution. Unfortunately, human social structures are manipulated outside of normal physics by those who have the power to do so, and are extremely resistant to change once established.

At the same time, these concentrations of power into the hands of the few inevitably lead to systems failures. The piece-meal application of band-aids over these problems can extend the life of the status quo for generations, but will always crop back up eventually.

In order to break this cycle, we have to move past the competition schemes. Like #Science, basic 'survival' technology needs to be open & shared, with the intent that our neighbors being more #SelfSufficient means they won't end up at our door with desperate plans and severe consequences.

Our #philosophy around #democratic, egalitarian living must be ported over to the collectives, and allowed to break away from #NationState structures back to #CityStates, with regional agreements between sovereign, fully distributed democracies. (not the #faketocracies that exist today)

Everything that we desire for individuals must also be applied to our plural, compound bodies. This requires a fairly significant change in the #anthropocentric views that nationalism and other forms of bigotry & #jingoism drive. That is nearly impossible to do in the conditions of scarcity & #inequality, which are of course, favored by the elitists in power who benefit from them.

@Rhyothemis If that was the only reasoning behind it, not a good assumption. Could be speciesism too.

I like to use the term #anthropocentric as a general catch-all for such biases.

@HeavenlyPossum It's unfortunate that #ideologies have pigeon-holed so many of the critical ideas & problems of our world.

They all have one thing in common (<- pun): they rely on belief rather than reasoned arguments. This allows people to put their own #spin on almost any data or model, and use this spin to justify their #beliefs.

Of course, they are blind to these #biases, and they also spin their way into the appearance that they are not based on beliefs (such as religions freely admit), so that they can enter the world of academic authority, and appeal to this force.

Because these biases develop from human nature though, the academic world is also tainted by ideologies, and indeed, in our #market driven societies, often paid for by them.

On the bright side, the debates around the word #commons were magnified greatly, and now this word holds a more deserving level of importance.

What is still missing is the embracing of #complexity as the fundamental nature of reality. This is our next "level up".

Even the definitions of public/private/commons are inconsistent with this reality, driven by #anthropocentric, linear simplicities that allow the status quo to continue to rely on ideology to rule from above.

The "tragedy" part is interpreted by people through their own filters (magnified by the media & other beneficiaries of inequality). I've never perceived it in the way it's presented here, nor even felt that it had a great role in the problems of today.

Note: Ostrom submitted her dissertation in 1964, 4 years prior to Hardin's publication. It established that such #socioeconomic #coordination is possible, assigning the "tragedies" to other elements of society, through the narrative of #CAS, and our failure to incorporate it into #education, #politics, etc.

The result of this separation & alienation from nature is to have a severely limited view the world through our clouded #anthropocentric lens & to fail to understand the true scale of the damage we’re doing to #ecosystems & #biodiversity. (2/3)

I've been "coming out" somewhat as a bit of a #Sanskrit #Hindi nerd on #Twitter over the last year or so. And sometimes post little videos of Sanskrit #verses with explanations in #English. In case some of you are interested, here's a particularly fav #shlok #verse that offers a non-#anthropocentric #narrative on #climatechange. There's also a thread with some of the other videos: https://twitter.com/AmritaNarlikar/status/1448896100212121603
#India #ancient #wisdom #AnimalsAreOurEquals

#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?