https://meltingasphalt.com/a-natural-history-of-beauty/ … (esp. the bit about the flytraps)
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Replying to @utotranslucence
the word "healthy desire" reminds me of a phrase from this really fun guru on SikhNet who says "the flower is horny for the sun!" in this cheeky mischievous way
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted David Chapman
@KevinSimler re: "out there or in us?"– I like to riff off of@meaningness's point about rainbowshttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/863915605019250688 …Visakan Veerasamy added,
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Oh what a great passage! A coda I would add is that, once you have the full causal model of a rainbow, it becomes _much less interesting_ to ask how the labels “objective” and “subjective” apply to it.
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Tbh I'm still skeptical about the non-objecthood of that rainbow. You and your friends standing together will say "look at that thing, that rainbow". You are carving out this phenomenon from other things and treating it on its own; cont
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Replying to @FateOfTwist_ @KevinSimler and
Holes, shadows, and other absences are objects. Boarders, personal space, the end zone, and other significant/managed/politicized spaces are objects. Materiality is only a heuristic.
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Well… “object” is a vague concept. Many people in many contexts would deny that some of thise are objects. If you give a specific technical definition, you can locally count them as objects, and that may be useful. It’s not True (or false).
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