i wish there were more creators like you. this is unparalleled. sending love from a fellow vegan neurodivergent human of non-western world.

powerful, informative, so creative. Thank you for your outstanding consciousness raising.

Amazing. Love the illustrations as always ❤

thank you. I'm looking forward to re-watching this with loved ones!

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Such a beautiful and personal telling, and at the same time, with such power of mobilizing for a better future!

thank you for making and sharing this! very cool. however... it seems to me that there is a strange and surprising, biased termination of critical thinking-through of our best empirically-grounded collective explanations, that is more often present among humanities/continental philosophy students and/or 'left-leaning', even 'woke' [non-derogatorily meant] groups, especially among those who lack a thorough education in philosophy of science and critical thinking. it's all cool that one can categorise certain activities, relations, structures as oppressive, as (neo)colonial, as anti-revolutionary, etc... we have the kind of nature that requires nurture, as lisa feldman-barrett puts it. what is natural is precisely that organisms develop differently due to their different histories, including the social and environmental aspects of that history. pretty much all biological theorists today are in agreement that the debate is solved because it is a case not of either/or but of both/and: nature and nurture always interact. developmental systems theory takes this interactionist reasoning further. developmental systems theory challenges the notion of two separable, interacting causes that could, in principle, be disentangled. it challenges the fundamental idea that nature and nurture can in fact be treated as separable sources of organismal form. the key observation is that development is a process that unfolds over time. the organism’s genes are always present throughout that process, as is the organism’s environment. the two cannot be separated in principle because you can never observe how the organism would have developed under the influence of only the genes in isolation from the environment, or vice versa. crucially, development is not a battle between internal biological starting conditions and externally imposed cultural deviations that push the outcome away from what it ‘would naturally have been.’ although we may for analytic purposes wish to identify different aspects of the system with the labels “nature” and “culture,” ultimately these do not amount to ontologically separate forces that exert independent influences robert sapolsky: "Instead of causes, biology is repeatedly about propensities, potentials, vulnerabilities, predispositions, proclivities, interactions, modulations, contingencies, if/then clauses, context dependencies, exacerbation or diminution of preexisting tendencies. Circles and loops and spirals and Möbius strips." susan oyama: “The biological, the psychological, the social, and the cultural are related not as alternative causes but as levels of analysis.” there is no 'me' over and above biology who is merely 'influenced' by biology and environment. that's again inviting unintelligible talk of dualism, essentialism and some obscure separation into a worldview, none of which seems convincing. (1) You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself -because of the way you then are. (2) So if you’re going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you’re going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. (3) But you can’t be ultimately responsible for the way you are in any respect at all. (4) So you can’t be ultimately responsible for what you do. The key move is (3). Why can’t you be ultimately responsible for the way you are in any respect at all? In answer, consider an expanded version of the argument. (a) It’s undeniable that the way you are initially is a result of your genetic inheritance and early experience. (b) It’s undeniable that these are things for which you can’t be held to be in any way responsible (morally or otherwise). (c) But you can’t at any later stage of life hope to acquire true or ultimate moral responsibility for the way you are by trying to change the way you already are as a result of genetic inheritance and previous experience. (d) Why not? Because both the particular ways in which you try to change yourself, and the amount of success you have when trying to change yourself, will be determined by how you already are as a result of your genetic inheritance and previous experience. (e) And any further changes that you may become able to bring about after you have brought about certain initial changes will in turn be determined, via the initial changes, by your genetic inheritance and previous experience. so all the oppression and whatever bad stuff, couldn't have been in any way otherwise, and no one is 'responsible', no one is in control. asserting otherwise just is appealing to some obscure, anti-sense-making magical non-explanations, table banging and arguing from incredulity. you either explain some intersubjectively experienced phenomena based on public data with concepts like; 1. mechanism [structured configuration, composed of entities + activities/processes, operations/dynamicity that result in the explanation of phenomena.] 2. brute happenings, occurrences, events either with or without causal structure -- either there is a humean mosaic of brute occurrences, which is (A, B, C, D, E, F) or there is causality, which is (A->B->C->D->E->F). 3. determinism or indeterminism (true randomness, which just means unexplainable, uncaused, brute happenings). or you just don't explain anything. but it doesn't make sense to blame or praise or reward or punish anyone for anything, if your reasons are some evolved behavioural tendencies, if you understand your options when it comes to explanation. determinism, indeterminism, doesn't matter, neither makes organisms magical gods. so hostility, feeling righteous or deserving or expecting any special treatment, entitlement etc.. just. don't. make. sense. that doesn't mean that it somehow doesn't make sense to wish for nice warmfuzzy experiences and imagine 'what if' and speculate, but understand that whatever was, is, will be, couldn't have been, cannot be, and won't be in any way otherwise than it ever was, is, will be. wherever you go, there you are, and that's it. so drop the righteousness, the sense of desert, entitlement and blame, because they just don't make sense.

incredible.

Thank you so much for this!