Art Bébé says, ‘Ich bin ein gebildeter Deutscher. Lash it to transcend it!‘

Art Bébé says, ‘Transcribed from Gerhard Sonnert’s Einstein & Culture: Weltanschauung definitions 1) An intellectual synthesis of the world as a whole – a synthesis of the human knowledge or conjectures about the world and reality. 2) The synthesizing action of the human consciousness, mind, intellect, or spirit. 3) A value judgement – evaluating the world.’

Art Bébé adds, ‘She is not yet making any judgement. She has too much to learn. Lash it to transcend it!’

‘Described from Gerhard Sonnert’s Einstein & Culture: ‘To strive for a complete view of the world, in a general sense, is an old an recurring dream of humankind, a dream that the late Isiah Berlin somewhat skeptically called the Ionian Fallacy. In the sixth century BCE, Ionian philosophers first inquired. Into the ultimate nature of the Universe. Thales, the first of them, concluded that everything came from water; Anaximander identified the unexperienceable (apeiron) as the ultimate source, Anaximenes argued for air, and Heraclitus favored fire.’

‘Described from Gerhard Sonnert’s Einstein & Culture: In T.S Elliot’s Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, (1949), Elliot differentiated three definitions of culture, that of the individual, that of a social group or class (especially the elite), and that of  a society as a whole.’

‘Transcribed: ‘From Rob Dunn’s ‘A Natural History of the Future,’ thanking him. The microbes in the gut talk to the immune system and the brain. They exchange the signals they have been exchanging for millions of years. We know that the specific details of these signals can affect the way the immune system works (and when it fails) and also a person’s personality.’

‘She is continuing her study of Charles Darwin, noting that in the Origin of Species, he was to write:  Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good, silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.’

‘Robotic bees, she will not fly with them.’

‘On microbes, directly lifting from Rob Dunn’s ‘A Natural History of the Future,’ thanking him.

‘Microbes aren’t a key in a bodily lock. That is the wrong analogy. There isn’t a lock, but instead, hundreds of locks, many hundreds or even thousands of ways and contexts in which microbes interact with our bodies. Individual microbe species might play more than one role and hence fit more than one lock. A single role might be filled by more than one microbe species. And which microbial key fits which lock depends on which other species are present on, and in the body. All this is to say that is complicated …. As we consider the future, one of our challenges is that we will need to find a way to continue to pass the species we need to the next generations …. We must carry forward everything, the species we need today, (which we only partially know well enough to list)t, t’he species we will need tomorrow, and the species we could need in the far future in any of the many worlds that might come to be.’

‘Within this century, we are living through a rapidly unfolding apocalypse called climate breakdown.’

‘A summation from Bill McGuire’s Hothouse Earth that a fusion of ignorance, poor governance, and obfuscation and lies by climate deniers has ensured that we have sleepwalked to within less than half a degree of the 1.5-degree Celsius change guardrail … In order to limit the consequences of the climate chaos heading our way, the honest truth is that, of every decision taken, and of every choice made – by individuals, local authorities, businesses big and small, and governments – the question must be asked: is this good for the climate? If the answer is yes, all well and good. If the answer is no, then it cannot be allowed to proceed.’