Realizing the Biosphere
4. Natural Drives, Directions, and Perspectives
joins me for further jamming on the topic of human/biosphere relationship. We explore the idea of entropy reduction (negentropy) as a natural trajectory, and its relationship to the evolution of consciousness. Folding in Nietzsche, we consider the “will to power” in terms of a natural drive related to such processes before turning to the “mereological question” proposed to us by : Is humanity (the noosphere) part of the biosphere, or is the biosphere part of the noosphere? This leads to further considerations of the unique human contribution to biospheric dynamics, and the question of anthropocentrism in how we frame such relationships.
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