What if the human psyche has atrophied as a result of civilisation? In respect of attunement to nature, I mean. That's according to the original meaning of educate. The point is meant to pull us out of ourselves. The natural human tendency is to interpret discoveries in terms we already know (self-reinforcing, in-crowd elitism, etc) with the typical consequence that we end up missing the point. I still use scientific framing in suitable contexts, whilst being aware that my own preference is for metaphysical framing (more basic, more integrative, more transcendent). So it's all down to how we interpret discoveries.
Science, both practice & theory, is culturally framed. Well, your reference to imagination got me pondering, aware that other mental faculties come into play with psychedelic adventuring.Ĭultural framing is a determinant. Putting aside how scientists tend to learn by killing other life-forms (I still find that distasteful), what we have in this quote is proof of provision of intergenerational equity – inasmuch as the process of dying initiates a process of sharing natural resources with the young. This is a completely different way of understanding how old trees contribute to the next generations - that they have agency in the next generations. And in this way, these old trees are actually having a very direct effect on the regenerative capacity of the new forest going forward. The rest of the carbon would have just dispersed through natural decomposition processes … but some of it is directed right into the neighbors. And then we watched what happened to their carbon.Īnd we found that about 40% of the carbon was transmitted through networks into their neighboring trees. We stress them out by pulling their needles off and attacking them with budworms and so on. And one of the things that I studied was where does their energy - where does the carbon that is stored in their tissues - where does it go? And so we label some trees with carbon dioxide - with C13, which is a stable isotope - and we watched as we actually cause these trees to die. In the process of dying, there's a lot of things that go on. Yeah, you may also recall a conversation we had onsite here around a year ago with We The Bleeple on root fungi ecosystems.
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