How we severed our ecological ties, created nature, harming ourselves and nonhumans, and what we can do it about it now.

1. Reimagining our future with humans and
nonhumans
Re:Symbiosis

2. Anthropocene
The 6th Great Mass Extinction

3. ● Co2
● Damming
● Extinctions
● Land Use

10. But it’s not just
“non-humans who are
impacted”

16. "We are the asteroid”

17. "We are the asteroid”

18. "We are the
asteroid”

19. "We are the asteroid”
"We are the
asteroid”

20. The Severing
+ Agrilogistics

21. Agrilogistics

22. Anthropocene
The 6th Great Mass Extinction

23. Anthropocene
The 6th Great Mass Extinction

24. Anthropocene
The 6th Great Mass Extinction

25. Anthropocene
The 6th Great Mass Extinction

26. Nature as
other

27. The Infinite Loop of Agriculture
10,000 + Years of the Agriculture
- Optimising for quantity and efficiency.
- Short term optimisation leads to latching on
to bugs
- It’s easier to improve agricultural models than
to change them

28. Agrilogistics

29. Agrilogistics

30. Agrilogistics

31. The Great Severing
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32. Us vs.
Them

33. The
Symbiotic
Real

34. Bacteria to Human
Where did we come from?

38. 堆 Heaps 堆
Soritories Paradox

39. Soritories Paradox

40. Soritories Paradox

42. What if things like
worlds, cultures,
intelligence, empathy,
gender are much more
lightweight and leaky
than we ever
imagined?

43. - Mutually exclusive
- Collectively exhaustive
- Unambiguous

45. - Mutually exclusive
- Collectively exhaustive
- Unambiguous

46. Neuroscientist
discovers the neural
correlates of emotion
in rats and humans.

47. Logic & The
Uncanny Valley

48. Traditional Machine
Learning (Symbolic AI)
failed because perfect
rules can never grasp
“heaps”.

49. Deep Learning: from
rules and logic to
“you know it when
you see it”.

51. - Mutually exclusive
- Collectively exhaustive
- Unambiguous

52. - Mutually exclusive
- Collectively exhaustive
- Unambiguous

54. What if things like
worlds, cultures,
intelligence, empathy,
gender are much more
lightweight and leaky
than we ever
imagined?

55. Subscendence

56. “Your community is made
of many separate parts
each of which are
important, but none have
significant value by
themselves. The whole
(community) is more
important, more useful,
more beautiful, or in some
ways “greater” than all of
the separate parts
standing on their own.”

57. The whole is greater than the sum
of it’s parts.
The whole is always less than the
sum of it’s parts.

58. Female
American
Carnivore
Herbivore
Right-Handed
Book Reader
Wavy Haired

59. unsevering

60. RE-Symbiosis

61. RE-Symbiosis
History now depends on our ability to bring
ecological awareness into our algorithms.
Every action we make matters more than it ever
did.
But yet, no single action matters, we need
collective action.
We need solidarity with humans and nonhumans.
We must stay with the trouble.

62. RE-SymbiosisIt’s not our fault, but it is our
responsibility.

63. Earth-centred not human centred.
Life as ambiguous, not life as prepackaged
Expand human flourishing not Exploit human bugs
Solidarity with beings not human exceptionalism

64. References
Robert Sapolsky
Timothy Morton
Blaise Arcas
Jan van Hoof
Donna Haraway
Francis de Waal
Nick Lane
Lynn Margolis
Francis Crick
Ed Yong
Jaak Panksepp
Jordan Peterson
Eric Weinstein