Benjamin Cain
Oct 14, 2022

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I agree that we're internally conflicted, as is our modular brain with its levels of processing that evolved in different eras. But overall, our "nature" is unnatural because of its self-creative prospects. Our imagination, intelligence, autonomy, creativity, and cultural embededness enable us to progress and even to convert nature-as-the-wilderness into virtually miraculous, anti-natural, artificial domains.

So this is likely just a semantic dispute about the meaning of "natural." I've written a number of articles outlining what I mean here.

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/secular-ironies-from-pantheism-to-hubristic-progress-fe69bb8ed435?sk=5b49b37cf2c4c76889a091b7e2513262

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/how-civilization-devours-nature-like-a-black-hole-d044fd1bf8ea?sk=986b30b7a661914f495d64fb373603ca

https://medium.com/original-philosophy/how-black-holes-help-solve-the-mystery-of-consciousness-939cb0fa7693?sk=7a19c3e4b758978d8417d52ceb3a0a3d

https://medium.com/the-philosophers-stone/the-promethean-revolt-and-the-cosmic-meaning-of-art-a43dd213ee91?sk=c53c9da512ed22b88d192242ba44070c

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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