75. Realizing the Biosphere | 4. Natural Drives, Directions, and Perspectives (w/ Layman Pascal)

Layman joins me for further jamming on the human/biosphere relationship. We explore the idea of entropy reduction (negentropy) as a natural trajectory and its relationship to the evolution of consciousness. Folding in Nietzsche, we consider the "will to power" in terms of a natural drive related to such processes before turning to the "mereological question": Is humanity (the noosphere) part of the biosphere or is the biosphere part of the noosphere? This leads to further considerations of the unique human contribution to biospheric dynamics, and the question of anthropocentrism in how we frame such relationships.

0:00 Introduction

1:28 Nature and Negentropy

14:44 Towards a Qualitative Typology of Negentropic Systems

25:00 A Natural Direction: The Role of Consciousness and Care

35:41 Decentration and Ecologization

41:16 Negentropy and the Will to Power

57:35 Mereology and Mutual Transformation

1:11:29 Art and Nature

1:21:16 An Appetition for Noospheric Mapping

1:39:44 Anthropocentrism and the Human Perspective

1:57:43 Conclusion

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