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Tag: ecology

Irreconcilable Differences

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Post date Oct 20, 2023
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Is integration of ecology and technology an aspiration to unify catastrophically irreconcilable antitheses? If not, how?

Tags biomimetic, climate, ecology, Philosophy, technology

Philosophy

The generative indeterminacy of (a) living diversity is orders of magnitude more sophisticated than the variously atavistic legal frameworks with which we might frame them. Discontinuities between law and activism are, in this context, the result of a false dichotomy. That is – the differences and environmentally unsustainable if not outright and questionably unethical outcomes […]

Tags activism, climate, Complexity, ecology, environment, ethics, law, legal, regulation

Philosophy

Sustainable Food Systems

Context: Working More Systemically Towards Sustainable Food Systems: A Co-Inquiry Process A critical issue at the heart of this issue is that we lack a comprehensive, resilient and adaptive systems ontology upon which to build the structural, organisational and sociotechnical or cognitive/intelligent and technological systems we actually require. It is one thing to identify a […]

Tags ecology, economy, environment, food, health, planet, sustainability, United Nations

Philosophy

Peace is Freedom from Self

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Post date Jan 16, 2021
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There seems to be something of a plausible inevitability to depression and psychological suffering. Being that our minds have been sculpted by long-term evolutionary biases towards survivability in a probabilistically uncertain and materially dangerous world, there is something of a hard-coded orientation towards pessimism (or at the very least – pragmatism) within us all. Culture […]

Tags civilisation, depression, ecology, environment, freedom, hate, history, loneliness, love, other, Peace, Psychology, sadness, self, technology, unity, war

systems

Octopus Farming: What is the (actual) product here?

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Post date Dec 30, 2019
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Work into refining the viability of octopus farming continues apace. I doubt that there is any other animal on Earth the farming of which would so closely resemble the cultivation of extraterrestrial life. Reflections on a big(ger) picture: In what ways does accelerated aquaculture only continue to generate the problems which have led to the […]

Tags aquaculture, business, capitalism, commercialism, ecology, economics, environment, exploitation, farming, logic, nature, octopus, value

technology

Cyber Security and Governance: to Centralise or not to Centralise?

Post author By G
Post date Nov 7, 2019

Cyber security is a fascinating and rapidly evolving problem-space. What possible solutions exist in regards to coordinated governance and oversight? If a centralised software and hardware development methodology iss used – compliance to formal standards could be assured but the (logically and materially inevitable) emergence of vulnerability and exploit would mean that this systemic coherence […]