The word “evolution” has some unpleasant connotations. For example, it is thought that evolution works by progressing from less complexity to more complexity, with human exceptionalists arguing that the perl of both evolution and complexity are we: humans. I have discovered that contemporary biology proves otherwise by reading Andreas Hejnol in Arts of Living on…
Category: Life
Life’s Autopoietics and Sympoietics // Sofya
This world, the same for all things, did none of the gods or men make, but it always was, is, and shall be an ever-living fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures Heraclitus, Fr. 30 They (Empedocles and Anaxagoras) assert that everything is mixed in everything, because they saw everything arises out of…
Asking “Why” with Albert Camus // Sofya
It is not easy to commit suicide. One clings to life even if it is unbearable. One wants to preserve oneself, and can only commit suicide if one is already dead. When one is no longer oneself, one cannot continue living, one must jump out of oneself transforming into something else—or die. Life can never…