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Bio-Techno-Spheres - Coggle Diagram
Bio-Techno-Spheres
Psychedelic Renaissance (Williams et al. 2022)
psychedelics
treat depression, anxiety, PTSD, addiction → decriminalization
violate custodianship and obligation to look after land
Turtle Island/Abya Yala believe sacred and visionary plants as living beings
use mushrooms to communicate with ancestors
Mazatec shamans consume psychoactive mushrooms as part of healing rituals “to access MTH power inherent in the landscape”
integral part of landscape
Topos = territory or place
Place = fulcrum for relationship entre human and MTH
Person derives power de natural world or ancestors
Imagination inextricably connected to place as well
“Power and place produce personality” (Deloria and Wildcat 2001)
Children formed de clay
→ walk gently on Earth, “for we are treading on the faces of our own unborn generations”
colonial extractivism
Western ppl profit w/o benefit Indigenous ppl
Michale Pollan, ayahuasca (hallucinogen) tourism
R. Gordon Wasson → “discover” psychoactive mushrooms in Mexico
Betrayed Mazatec traditional healer Maria Sabina by revealing name + photos → Sabina jailed
“Unexamined imperialist baggage”
Extraction = "political and environmental project" in that, "natural resources become vehicles for increasing personal wealth without regard for the potential cost to others." (Willow 2016)
Biopiracy
Ontological Turn
describe diverse, and often overlapping, philosophical critiques of the absolutism of Western conceptions of reality.
manifestations (Blaser 2014)
geographic field (humans, non-humans, non-living matter)
The settler’s condition
= disconnected de land
decolonizing psychedelics involve giving the LAND BACK
"reconciliation that rearranges political orders, reforms legalities and promotes economics is still colonial unless and until it centres our (Indigenous) relationship to the land." (Alfred 2017)
1492 Taino v Columbus
1994 Mara v Mexico
2020 Black Hills v South Dakota
Keystone XL Pipeline, 30m telescope Mauna Kea, Trump’s border wall
avoid biocolonialism by discuss IP with IK
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Authentic continental citizenship
obtained by engage personhood (MTH power) of all relations
multiple realities (dynamic and animate world)
Western paradigm limit ability to perceive multiple and diverse entanglements w more-than-human (MTH)
Incompatible bio categories (e.g. ayahuasca)
Catholic Church Doctrine of Discovery
Jurisdiction over Indig lands → centuries of genocide
Relationality Inherent in a Territorial Ontology
Network of reciprocal relations (Interconnection entre all entities)
Dynamic relational entanglement
Mexico psychoactive mushrooms = "rainwater child" (apipiltzen)
Land-language-relationality nexus
“limited by an apparent desire to translate Indigenous epistemes into the categories reified by modern Eurocentric philosophy, namely ontology, epistemology, methodology, and axiology”
Native Science by Gregory Cajete
In Native language, there are no words for science/philosophy/psychology
Each tribe member was a scientist, artist, storyteller, participant in web of life
Open to roles of sensation, perception, imag, emotion, symbols, spirit, etc.
Indigenous scientists interchange science and knowledge
Native people =/= vestiges of the past
“Knowledge is never really lost; it comes into being when it is needed, and leaves when it is no longer needed or properly used”
Seeking Life
“Born of a lived and storied participation with the natural landscape”
Must participate in natural world
“Using the entire body of our senses in direct participation with the natural world”
Dr. Leslie Gray: Native languages are verb-based; English/Western languages are noun-based
English language is so limited to describe Native ontology
Biophilia = all life forms se affiliated
Participation with nature, identify with land
"creative participatory process"
creativity with the natural world
Orientations
East
rising sun, morning wind
Earth-centered ordering paradigms/patterns of thought
South
healing winds
herbology, holistic health
West
setting sun, dry winds
Essential role of community
North
animals and hard wind
POV animal myth and actual rel w animals
Below
Earth
Ecological ethic
Understand elemental forces
Above
celestial origin
Creating new minds and worlds
Ecological consciousness
Anthropology uses Western terms to describe Native experience
Animism
Totemism
Is "SCIENCE" a Western concept?
Or a way to perceive the world and und, explain exist in time/space → cada culture has sci
Modern age: appropriation of Indigenous knowledge
ISSUE: ctrl of info and access to info
Intelligence as Planetary Scale Phenomena (Frank et al. 2021)
Intelligence usu seen as property of individuals
Astrobio def intelligence as prop of one or more species
technological civilizations engaging in large-scale energy harvesting could trigger strong climate-changing feedbacks
Planetary intelligence
= defined as the acquisition and application of collective knowledge operating at a planetary scale
Intelligence → global tech civilization → reshape planet
Ancestral planetary intelligence: Collective cognition + networked feedback prior to human intelligence
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
= collectives’ rankings among a set of choices will not reflect that of its individual members in any procedural way.
Technosphere
= aggreg planetary activity of tech (Herrman-Pilath 2018)
Techosignature
= char of tech civilization detectable de distance
Technosignatures: how we will look for intelligent life outside of earth
CAS
= Complex Adaptive Systems, semi-autonomous agents interact to form sys wide patterns
Living vs Non-living
Life has active use of info
Life = emergent prop of physiochemical sys de constructed (Kauffman)
Life is autonomous and organizationally closed system (indiv of bio sys created by sys itself)
Autopoietic view
Semantic vs Syntactic
At what level of org does agency appear?
Cognition = “‘the mechanisms by which animals acquire, process, store, and act on information from the environment’ (Shettleworth) → for survival and reproduction
‘the interlinked set of communication, transportation, bureaucratic and other systems that act to metabolize fossil fuels and other energy resources’. (Haff 2012)
Kardeshev Scale = show energy-harvesting capacities alone are not enough to meaningfully characterize the evolution of technospheres.
Human computation
= crowd-sourced activities e.g. wiki editing or human-assisted AI
Anthropocene as a transition of global cognitive activity
Biosphere
Biosphere coupled with other planetary sys e.g. atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere (Vernadsky)
The Gaia Hypothesis
(Margulis + Lovelock)
Microbes = drivers for Gaian feedback
Rich with pre-intelligence
GOE = Great Oxygenation Event
Shown Signal Transduction, Auto-induction, memory, learning
Earth’s life maintain global cond (e.g. ave temp) within range to keep planet habitable
‘the view of evolution as chronic bloody competition ... dissolves before a new view of continual cooperation, strong interaction, and mutual dependence among life forms. Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking’ (Margulis and Sagan, 1986)
Gaia = emergent prop of organism interactions
Now called "Earth Systems Science"
Biosphere evoln is state-dependent
Assoc w true appearance of global feedbacks of semantic info
CAVEAT for Anthropocene as ex of planetary intelligence
Homo spaiens have constructed UNSTABLE indus civilization
Holocene climate state
“technosphere must operate within the safe operating boundaries of the biosphere/geosphere it is embedded in means that new levels of monitoring and response must be developed and deployed on planetary scales.”
Biodigital Convergence (Williams & Brant 2022)
Policy Horizons Canada 2020:
biodigital convergence
= “the interactive combination, sometimes to the point of merging, of digital and biological tech and systems”
New forms of hybrid life (e.g. insects for digital surveillance)
Boundaries of self
“where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” (Clark, Chalmers 1998)
Active externalism
= ext env plays role in cog process
co-evolution for progress o/w impossible
Synthetic bio = use of living systems as hosts for the synthesis of organic molecules that do not otherwise occur naturally (ACS, 2000)
paradigm shift in und of bio and digital sys e.g. digital as tech ecosystems
The Haudenosaunee worldview
Vibrant dynamism
Dynamism is agency
The good mind “occurs when the people put their minds and emotions in harmony with the flow of the universe” (Barreiro, 2010)
“where one is has everything to do with who one is” (Sheridan, Longboat 2006)
When ppl stop respect land, life will be destroyed (Akwesasne Notes)
Human obligation: at a minimum, not interfering with other beings’ ability to fulfill their own responsibilities to Creation.
kasasten’sera which is the vital life-force of the human and more-than-human individual, human collectivities, and ecological communities and is a form of power derived from the unity of all matter that supports the continued existence of all creation.
BIG Q
: is it possible that biodigital technologies could make the entangled connection between human and other more explicit or will these technologies distract us from recognizing our interrelatedness with all of creation?
Does the coevolution of biodigital coupled systems allow each party—the biological and the digital—to fulfill their obligations to creation?
Nouns and names “lessen the motion of images”
“ontological importance of place is the antithesis of positivist universalism, which has been described by some theorists as the view from nowhere”
Decentralized food production