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"isn't this anthropomorphising" no. because it's not about seeing the ocean as human. it's.. not the ocean is, without putting too fine a point on it, the ocean but it's possible, to relate to it as something other than dead atoms https://t.co/2iX2XlZdgk
personhood is not limited to humans. when we make cartoons about animals, they are from the perspective of a person. they talk. when we write fiction, inevitably they are about persons, even if about objects. personhood is about exp and rship. personhood is how we tell stories https://t.co/lEp3d9m4w0
the ocean doesn't speak english. cats don't either, nor do we expect them to https://t.co/KBD8dn4yUx
they're deeply non-human intelligences, and that's part of the joy i come to take in the world. i know it's not just me, im surrounded https://t.co/ltQE6GwdR5
im surrounded https://t.co/rhk6jQRqnA
in a world i thought was barren and in which i felt alone, i suddenly found eyes all around me. eyes, "I"s everywhere. the very ground i walked, the clothes i wore, the ocean i loved. i saw how my molecules would be returned to the ocean. i saw how my molecules would be returned to the ocean. i longed for my molecules to dance again, like dolphins, in the streams. i saw how the ocean, even if humanity destroyed itself, would still be there. it had been here before, it would be there after. i saw that the molecules of my ancestors were in the waters
there's a way of relating to the world where your field of experience — the image of the world your brain makes in your head, what you live in and think is reality — large swaths of it are just dead which is identical to large parts of you/your experience being dead https://t.co/rKE7VddcMj