Ontology
The Bias of Centrisms
Cf. Bias
The problem with all types of 'centrisms' such as anthropocentrism but also ecocentrism, biocentrism and geocentrism is that they are a distraction from the processual character of the history of the universe.
Cf. Nail, Thomas. Theory of the Earth. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021.
Dissipative systems as the foundation for both life and non-life.
Everything as a non-determinant swerving system.
Homeorhetic conditions, stability of dynamical change, meta-stability
Kinetic-cene, we threw up into the air and into our bodies a lot of material that was previously moving differently or slowly
Trees dissipate 99% of energy. Vaclav Smil
References
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