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Benjamin, Emergent Learning, metabolic ontology, Posthumanism

Becoming-Through-Loss: The Groundwork of Metabolic Ontology

by Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.Leave a Comment on Becoming-Through-Loss: The Groundwork of Metabolic Ontology
Becoming-Through-Loss: The Groundwork of Metabolic Ontology

Metabolic ontology begins from a simple observation: nothing lives by remaining what it is. Existence persists only through continual transformation, through the conversion of decay into the conditions for further life. Entropy is not disorder but the movement that makes order temporary. Biology calls this metabolism: the exchange of matter, energy, and information that maintains [...]

Benjamin, Biocentrism, Emergent Learning, Posthumanism, regenerative education

We aren’t going to change the system. We can’t.

by Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.Leave a Comment on We aren’t going to change the system. We can’t.
We aren’t going to change the system. We can’t.

We aren’t going to change the system. We can’t. The very idea that we can change the system is what keeps it intact. It feeds the illusion that we stand outside it, looking down like engineers or gods, swapping one system for another. But that separation is false. We are not outside. We are the [...]