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diff --git a/subnature.otx b/subnature.otx index 5ecc262..661a91c 100644 --- a/subnature.otx +++ b/subnature.otx @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Sampling. Prepared for the National Science Foundation by the University of Cali \sec\nl -Since the 17\textsuperscript{th} century, modern science has seemed confident that the human species is independent from organic nature.% +\label[schroyer]\wlabel{Since the} 17\textsuperscript{th} century, modern science has seemed confident that the human species is independent from organic nature.% \fnote{In \booktitle{The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology} (N.Y., Harper, 1966), Hans Jonas has argued that we moderns live under the perspective of pan-mechanism in which the very existence of life has become the inexplicable phenomenon. The worlds of archaic humanity had the opposite problem. Living within world-views of pananimism (or vitalism), the inexplicable problem---in the sense of existential paradox---was death. In this sense pre-modern societies culturally constituted death as part of human existence. In modern cultures we have viewed organic life under the same cognitive forms that we used to understand inorganic matter-energy relations in space and time.} Universal knowledge of inorganic structures provides an ever refined system of techniques that (supposedly) separates us from nature in an irreversible manner. Socio-technical evolution step by step transforms all in-built human capabilities in a cycle of technical learning that creates tools that are reinforced till they become machines and are finally replaced by automatic systems. This behavioral cycle of feedback-guided learning is an artificial world construction process that is unconsciously determined by the human need for security and safety.% \fnote{Hence human existence is predicated on this fear and terror of nature. |