this kind of what you call a kind of evolved perspective. Another way of putting that might be in relationship to what I call in some other work, the Copernican Trauma or Copernican Turn. There are moments in, and this goes to your question about the technological aspect of this. There's moments in history, in sort of socio-technical history where we use technology in a certain way that allows us not just to do something in the world, but to discover that the world works very differently than we thought, the technology that we use to make it. So a telescope or a microscope, without telescopes, a heliocentric cosmology isn't really possible. Without microscopes, don't cause microbes, but once you understand that the surfaces of the world are covered with them, you see them differently. I think Darwinian biology was a kind of Copernican Trauma, neuroscience by which we understand ourselves as an animal that our most beautiful forms of cognition are also animal forms. Neuroscience, where (19/42)
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