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Signed: 13:52, 02/01/2012
Signed: 13:52, 02/01/2012
"This is beautiful and smart, thank you. I've written a little about a gift economy here: http://www.wildernessvagabonds.com/zp/index.php?p=pages&title=Not-for-sale
There's a range of relationship between species. Some are mutualists, giving to each other. Some are parasites, where one takes and the other gives. I don't see mutualists as morally good or parasites as morally evil, however. Over time the parasites have some pressure to evolve toward mutualism, lest they destroy their habitats and go extinct. I'm an ecosystem for bacteria and have 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells in my body. If I'm an ecosystem and an individual, it seems that the ecosystems we live in are also meta-organisms unto themselves in a similar way. At this stage humans are mostly parasitic in relation to our habitats, but we have started to understand the need and potential for more mutualism. Occupy Love! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtc-k6dhgs"
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There's a range of relationship between species. Some are mutualists, giving to each other. Some are parasites, where one takes and the other gives. I don't see mutualists as morally good or parasites as morally evil, however. Over time the parasites have some pressure to evolve toward mutualism, lest they destroy their habitats and go extinct. I'm an ecosystem for bacteria and have 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells in my body. If I'm an ecosystem and an individual, it seems that the ecosystems we live in are also meta-organisms unto themselves in a similar way. At this stage humans are mostly parasitic in relation to our habitats, but we have started to understand the need and potential for more mutualism. Occupy Love! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtc-k6dhgs" Share on Facebook Tweet this