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Chapter 71
The Concept of Zero
71.1 Dimensions of Human Response in the Wake of Its
Destructive Patterns
In answering to the challenge of variation, we arrive at the concept of zero, or of
infinity in terms of our ability to plumb the depths of biological annals and their
correlation into linear sense. There is not much to say about it. Language and
thought, occupying an unknown number of dimensions, condition our investment in
thought by architectural phantasms. Ten dimensions. Fifteen dimensions. A googolplexianth, or largest possible number, which must exceed a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
In whatever domain of speculation (just words) the individual will be lodged in a
limbo of unaccountable coefficients, tempting wormholes toward what in Buddhist
thought is transcendent consciousness, infinities marked by a singular infinite
apprehension. Each numeric, phase, series, morph, culture, wave, and particle will
actually undergo existence and non-existence as equals (Fig. 71.1).
This humility must inform eco-science, particularly in the area of intensive
human land use, for example. Numerically, we easily recognize globally massive
insults as deforestation and optimal or sub-optimal native seed dispersal mechanisms in both Nature’s and human arsenals. Write the authors of a contribution to
the literature of southern Indian (Nilgiris) “restoration ecology,” “…anthropogenic
activities heavily reduce native forest cover and landscape connectivity leading to
increased spatial isolation of remnant forest patches.”
1
It is one of countless simplesounding alarm bells, with vast consequences, in this instance, well beyond India,
of course. Arctic amplitude, for example, with heat waves in Siberia exceeding 100
degrees (100,000 years sooner than normal).
1 See “Recruitment of saplings in active tea plantations of the Nilgiri Mountains: Implications for
restoration ecology,” by D. Mohandass, Tarun Chhabra, Ramneek Singh Pannu, and Kingsly Chuo
Beng, Tropical Ecology 57(1): 101–118, 2016, © International Society for Tropical Ecology,
www.tropecol.com
© 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_71
Chapter 71
The Concept of Zero
71.1 Dimensions of Human Response in the Wake of Its
Destructive Patterns
In answering to the challenge of variation, we arrive at the concept of zero, or of
infinity in terms of our ability to plumb the depths of biological annals and their
correlation into linear sense. There is not much to say about it. Language and
thought, occupying an unknown number of dimensions, condition our investment in
thought by architectural phantasms. Ten dimensions. Fifteen dimensions. A googolplexianth, or largest possible number, which must exceed a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
In whatever domain of speculation (just words) the individual will be lodged in a
limbo of unaccountable coefficients, tempting wormholes toward what in Buddhist
thought is transcendent consciousness, infinities marked by a singular infinite
apprehension. Each numeric, phase, series, morph, culture, wave, and particle will
actually undergo existence and non-existence as equals (Fig. 71.1).
This humility must inform eco-science, particularly in the area of intensive
human land use, for example. Numerically, we easily recognize globally massive
insults as deforestation and optimal or sub-optimal native seed dispersal mechanisms in both Nature’s and human arsenals. Write the authors of a contribution to
the literature of southern Indian (Nilgiris) “restoration ecology,” “…anthropogenic
activities heavily reduce native forest cover and landscape connectivity leading to
increased spatial isolation of remnant forest patches.”
1
It is one of countless simplesounding alarm bells, with vast consequences, in this instance, well beyond India,
of course. Arctic amplitude, for example, with heat waves in Siberia exceeding 100
degrees (100,000 years sooner than normal).
1 See “Recruitment of saplings in active tea plantations of the Nilgiri Mountains: Implications for
restoration ecology,” by D. Mohandass, Tarun Chhabra, Ramneek Singh Pannu, and Kingsly Chuo
Beng, Tropical Ecology 57(1): 101–118, 2016, © International Society for Tropical Ecology,
www.tropecol.com