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News & ArtsMonday, August 10, 2009
Architecture Crossing the Roots
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:25 AM
As for me, I prefer my bridges to be dead.
1
You don't believe in using animals to help with work? Haven't you also said that you believe all objects have a soul? What is the difference between a car and a horse?
2
Sooooo chop down some trees, killing them, to make a bridge or form the still living tree into a bridge and kill nothing. I say that bridge is the coolest friggin thing ever!
4
@1, you have put a difficult question in front of my face. my panpsychism is woefully underdeveloped as an idea.
8
Charles has never been in a tree house (or climbed a tree for that matter), swung on a vine, or pulled himself up a steep incline while hiking by grabbing on to vegetation.
10
I see no compelling reason to argue that everthing has a soul. I also see no reason to be sure there is no such thing. We obviously cannot trust that our perceptions perfectly represent reality, so feeling that things have souls does us no good.
If the soul is the idea or purpose of a thing, all souls in inanimate objects exist in the human mind exclusively. A bridge has no anatomy where awareness of it's existence can take place. A horse has a brain in which the idea of self can reside. I might be totally misunderstanding what panpsychism is though. I'll look it up.
As far as humans using horses for work, it's a symbiotic relationship that's as natural as any other. We care for and protect the horses, in exchange they loan us the use of their vastly more powerful physical bodies. The horses may not be aware of the nature of the relationship, but their primary biological urge is to avoid extinction, and we've helped them to populate the globe. Everybody wins. It's no less natural, and shouldn't be any more troubling than the relationship between an anenome and a clownfish.
Those living bridges are beautiful.
If the soul is the idea or purpose of a thing, all souls in inanimate objects exist in the human mind exclusively. A bridge has no anatomy where awareness of it's existence can take place. A horse has a brain in which the idea of self can reside. I might be totally misunderstanding what panpsychism is though. I'll look it up.
As far as humans using horses for work, it's a symbiotic relationship that's as natural as any other. We care for and protect the horses, in exchange they loan us the use of their vastly more powerful physical bodies. The horses may not be aware of the nature of the relationship, but their primary biological urge is to avoid extinction, and we've helped them to populate the globe. Everybody wins. It's no less natural, and shouldn't be any more troubling than the relationship between an anenome and a clownfish.
Those living bridges are beautiful.
15
Anybody know the language being spoken? Sounds like Italian in places, but I'm not used to hearing it spoken by natives and have limited reading comprehension.
17
Charles, you came all this way to the PacNW, and you aren't even close to being ready to enter the woods at night and encounter the Sasquatch, are you?
How you gonna categorize him?
Ape? Man? Must he be categorized?
How you gonna categorize him?
Ape? Man? Must he be categorized?
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