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Chapter 69
The Other
69.1 The Subjective Case for Biological Verisimilitude
Any study of something accords that “thing” with some semblance of independent
substance or actual identity. Who, or what can the “Other” actually refer to? By
refer, are we presuming a prime number category of referencing? A rational number
hierarchy of assignations that is not vulnerable to any of the countless classes of
paradox that confound representation and metaphor? In the Jain pantheistic sense,
this Other contains a truth that is its actuality, its atomic valency (Jiva), the pillar of
biological verisimilitude: interdependency (Parasparopagraho Jivanam).
1
In spite of
the existentialist throes and temptations of human depression, there exists, despite
most claims denying them, true biological emblems of our global connectivity
between all taxonomic clusters and real individuals. We see it in every forest, a
standing declaration that we are not independent, alone, or at odds, but inseparable
as individuals (Fig. 69.1).
A coral reef is only paradoxical to the extent that oblivion confuses humans. In
fact, oblivion, the multitudinous congeries of vagueness outlined by the blurred collaborations of personages and populations, engenders the only true stability on the
world stage: The Other is that goal and promise, as fundamentally qualified by biology, psychology, and the very essence of the life force. She is all that we sense to
be Nature.
A paradox factor follows upon any consideration of that which can be isolated
from both within and without the contextual ordering of Linnaeus’ computations.
While taxonomy and physics are absorbed with, and obsessed by, phylogenetics,
rules, laws, borders, and computational translations—evidence for which is gathered by a human history of usually invasive methodologies—all such configurative
and declarative hypotheses, not least the current IUCN-Red List, US Fish &
1 See Life Force: The World of Jainism, by M. C. Tobias, Asian Humanities Press, Fremont,
California 1991.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. C. Tobias, J. G. Morrison, On the Nature of Ecological Paradox,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64526-7_69
Chapter 69
The Other
69.1 The Subjective Case for Biological Verisimilitude
Any study of something accords that “thing” with some semblance of independent
substance or actual identity. Who, or what can the “Other” actually refer to? By
refer, are we presuming a prime number category of referencing? A rational number
hierarchy of assignations that is not vulnerable to any of the countless classes of
paradox that confound representation and metaphor? In the Jain pantheistic sense,
this Other contains a truth that is its actuality, its atomic valency (Jiva), the pillar of
biological verisimilitude: interdependency (Parasparopagraho Jivanam).
1
In spite of
the existentialist throes and temptations of human depression, there exists, despite
most claims denying them, true biological emblems of our global connectivity
between all taxonomic clusters and real individuals. We see it in every forest, a
standing declaration that we are not independent, alone, or at odds, but inseparable
as individuals (Fig. 69.1).
A coral reef is only paradoxical to the extent that oblivion confuses humans. In
fact, oblivion, the multitudinous congeries of vagueness outlined by the blurred collaborations of personages and populations, engenders the only true stability on the
world stage: The Other is that goal and promise, as fundamentally qualified by biology, psychology, and the very essence of the life force. She is all that we sense to
be Nature.
A paradox factor follows upon any consideration of that which can be isolated
from both within and without the contextual ordering of Linnaeus’ computations.
While taxonomy and physics are absorbed with, and obsessed by, phylogenetics,
rules, laws, borders, and computational translations—evidence for which is gathered by a human history of usually invasive methodologies—all such configurative
and declarative hypotheses, not least the current IUCN-Red List, US Fish &
1 See Life Force: The World of Jainism, by M. C. Tobias, Asian Humanities Press, Fremont,
California 1991.