Post #3742506
2026-07-11 13:38 UTC
Is the planet alive?
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@ira@beige.party 2026-07-11 13:39
“… Instead of hypothesizing more metaphorical gadgets, adding further accessories to a crane's or a salmon's interior array of tools, what if we were to allow that the animal's migratory skill arises from a felt rapport between its body and the breathing Earth? That a crane's two-thousand-mile journey across the span of a continent is propelled by the felt unison between its flexing muscles and the sensitive flesh of this planet (this huge curved expanse, roiling with air currents and rippling with electromagnetic pulses), and so is enacted as much by Earth's vitality as by the bird that flies within it?” […] 1/