photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Azores, Atlantic Ocean 2024

The extent of the sentient capacities of ocean organisms should lead us to consider how much our own sensory processes are weighed down relative to other parts of the world. Earthly contexts are only one environment for cognition. Thinking in an oceanic or other marine-aquatic environment could develop quite differently. Our experience resides, or rather survives, predominantly on the surface of the earth (or on the surface of a ship or other vessel). This habit then leads us to consider the ways in which Earthly bias shapes our thinking […]

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