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#ScienceTalk #overshoot #economy #ecology #HumanExceptionalism #ParasiticGrowths #degrowth
Dr. #MuhammadIttefaq interviews Dr. #WilliamRees
"You cannot continue to deplete essential resources.
At some point it comes back to bite you."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZnnvH7FgBw
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/were-not-so-special/
#HackerNews #HumanExceptionalism #NewBook #Challenge #Philosophy #Humanity #Awareness
Humans and AI share the same creative mechanism: reconfiguration of prior inputs. The Casua Sui myth is comforting, but conservation of energy applies to ideas too. I can’t be causa sui — and neither can you.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/08/11/the-myth-of-causa-sui-creativity/
#Philosophy #Creativity #AI #LanguageInsufficiency #HumanExceptionalism #CriticalThinking
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
-#GKChesterton (1908) All Things Considered
#Mythology #Human #Animal #HumanExceptionalism #Anthropocentrism #Religion #Poetry #Divine #Quotes
"Based on centuries of study into animal consciousness and learning, it’s almost certain that many other animals experience a meaningful arc in their lives too."
Against Humanism