gives us some of our best mathematical and conceptual tools for understanding how cognition can be understood as nested, dynamic and continuous
Category: inspirations of EcO.
Lynn Margulis
And her collaborator James Lovelock who wrote: “The world of the future will be determined by the need to ensure Gaia’s survival, not by the selfish needs of humans or other intelligent species.”
Edward Tolman
Rachel Carson is one of the founders of ecological thinking because she was a pioneer of ecological mind. Her books opened a large section of humanity to the idea that their actions affect environmental health. Her books show us how our physical, mental, and spiritual health is nested with the health of all we encounter. In other words, she was among the first writers to express ecological orientation.
O’Keefe & Nadal
Karl Jaspers
“Each individual–by his [or her] way of life, his daily small deeds, by his great decisions, testifies to himself as to what is possible. By this, his present actuality, he contributes unknowingly towards the future.”
“Man is not merely pattern, he patterns himself.”
George Herbert Mead
the self as that which can be an object to itself