Achraf El-Bahi



aesthetics, affect, panpsychism, poet

a natural protein-based adhesive


“Phragmatopoma californica is a marine polychaete that glues bits of sand and seashells together into a protective tubular shell while fully submerged in cold seawater. … In the lab Sandcastle worms will add a variety of particles of the preferred size (roughly 0.5 mm) and chemical characteristics (not plastic) to their tubes [that they create with a glue-secretion]. In this case the tube has been extended with 0.5 mm glass beads. ” Russell J. Stewart. University of Utah



panpsychism, pattern, tool, worm

Evolution’s new wrinkle:

Princeton University -  Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective

“What we have found is that certain kinds of biological structures exist that are able to steer the process of evolution toward improved fitness,” — Raj Chakrabarti, Herschel Rabitz, Stacey Springs and George McLendon



evolution, panpsychism

The Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill


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banksy budget
activates chunky chicken micro-controllers
for an animist stir-fry of our conceptual parameters

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activist, animals, animist, chicken, panpsychism

Hofstadter, ”I am a Strange Loop”


“My argument in I Am a Strange Loop is spelled out clearly. If a person’s soul is truly a pattern, then it can be realized in different media. Wherever that pattern exists in a sufficiently fine-grained way, then it is, by my definition, the soul itself and not some kind of “mere simulation” of it.”



media-neutral cognition
& substrate-neutral emotion
equals immanence



autopoiesis, consciousness, panpsychism, soul

Ivy reveals gripping secret



rootlets end in fingers or disks, hundreds of micrometres long



panpsychism

The Great Ape Project

We demand the extension of the community of equals to include all great apes: human beings, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans.

The community of equals is the moral community within which we accept certain basic moral principles or rights as governing our relations with each other and enforceable at law.



animist, consciousness, panpsychism

The “I’m in bed” cell: Encoding abstract concepts in the mouse brain « Neurophilosophy


“mice can form abstract concepts” ( of the vivisectors )



concept, cruelty, mice, panpsychism, research, vivisection

Species Slaves





Chimera: these sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells



animist, consciousness, dna, panpsychism, posthuman

Antoine Schmitt – Still Living



generative, infoViz, minimalist, panpsychism

Consciousness in a Cockroach -



“Paired structures called mushroom bodies in a cockroach brain play a key role in navigation.



consciousness, panpsychism


Davis (1996, emphasis added):

“I’ve gradually smoothed over this more radical [ontological panpsychic] stance by strategically adopting methodological views (Arjun Appadurai and Igor Kopytoff’s cultural biographies of things, Stanley Fish’s reader-response theory of literary meaning) that would enable me to tell my biographical stories, and would at the same time domesticate my living objects within acceptable Western intellectual approaches. “Biographies” thus becomes a strategic metaphor for narrating the historical processes that surround objects over time, rather than the dead serious, non-metaphorical telling of an actual life of an embodied iconic being. Yet I don’t think that means that I entirely abandon my images to Western conceptualizations. In centering the book around stories, lives of individual objects that have led and continue to lead interesting and varied lives, I hope that there is a cumulative persuasive effect that I’m not using “lives” metaphorically or ironically, but as the expression of a serious ontological premise. My aim is that an accomodation between two different ideas of how images might in fact be alive will emerge over the course of the book.”

WRITING AS IF ICONS ARE REALLY ALIVE
(C.A.S.I. Position Paper)
Richard H. Davis
24 June 96



icons, images, life, ontological, panpsychism, reading