What's your favorite example that shows how the world is actually interconnected, nuanced, and always in motion, despite the categories modern cultures make up to divide the complex whole into parts, often with goals like domination and extraction? I have so many myself...a 🧵 - ThreadSky

bethsawin.bsky.social • 72 days ago

What's your favorite example that shows how the world is actually interconnected, nuanced, and always in motion, despite the categories modern cultures make up to divide the complex whole into parts, often with goals like domination and extraction? I have so many myself...a 🧵

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bethsawin.bsky.social•72 days ago

Fetal cells are found in mothers' brains after the child is born. The molecules of the baby were once food the mother ate, nucleic acid in her body now in the embryo's, the placenta a living conduit between the two. Where does mother end & child begin? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-discover-childrens-cells-living-in-mothers-brain/

bethsawin.bsky.social•72 days ago

The layer of gases that wrap the earth is constant motion, with no regard for the concept of nation states. Negotiating about well mixed gases in climate talks as though nation states can have different interests when it comes to well mixed gases. https://earth.nullschool.net/

bethsawin.bsky.social•72 days ago

Vision is when photons from a nearby star transfer their energy into photopigments in your eye. The starlight becomes, for a time, part of a molecule that is part of you. Light from a star, now bouncing around in your retina. The universe in you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_phototransduction

bethsawin.bsky.social•72 days ago

The bacteria in our guts impact how we feel, and what we eat impacts their dynamics. Virus integrate into our cells, sometimes our DNA, and live in a dance with us, with our immune cells, our health. We

bethsawin.bsky.social•72 days ago

I could go on and on and on. The thing is - here we are surround by high school science facts that tell us who and what we are . Not things but flows, not bounded but interconnected. This is not just "spirituality" not just metaphor. It's chemistry, physics, biology as well.

bethsawin.bsky.social•72 days ago

Meanwhile...governance, economics, healthcare, agriculture, education in these supposedly modern and enlightened societies ignore the truth of our interbeing because of its inconvenient implications for narrow and short term goals.

vs-phd.bsky.social•72 days ago

Not really "part of you." Probably better to say the starlight "tickles" a molecule in your eye... which is no less amazing.

uzmab.bsky.social•72 days ago

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zerothworld.bsky.social•72 days ago

Vascular flow of nutrients/O2/waste/CO2 via red blood cells keeps tissues & blood cells healthy. US Interstates are vascular network carrying food from farms to us; but is 48,000 mile food desert captive to 1/2 million long-haul truckers with awful health stats. What if rest stops sold healthy food?

donhotdog.bsky.social•72 days ago

how babies react to music

angelaintexas.bsky.social•72 days ago

This is amazing and beautiful. Thank you for this as we start the new year.

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