Forms of life, forms of mind

6 responses to “Nature Photography 23”

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   zkzk

   May 16, 2026

   second to last photo is gorgeous! i wonder if that effect has a name – when the shore is very flat, but just the right angle to create intervals of water – perfect sand liquid bands.

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   William J McCartan

   May 16, 2026

   Gorgeous set of pics doc, thank you for sharing man

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   mikail

   May 17, 2026

   gorgeous pics ! you’re love for red is contagious

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      Mike Levin

      May 17, 2026

      Thanks. I don’t love red in particular, nature does! Chlorophyl looks this way when shot in Infrared.

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         Matt

         May 17, 2026

         Your shirt says otherwise 😊😉

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   Alex A. O. Kobold

   May 19, 2026

   A comment on the discussion you posted today on YouTube..

   Discussion #1 with Amahury Jafet Lopez Diaz, Carlos Gershenson-Garcia, and Richard Watson
   https://youtube.com/watch?v=bujwU3pKc6c

   I think that monism and pluralism (which includes dualism) are both valid concepts — you just need to define them correctly. Everything that can be comprehended by our mind and makes logical/mathematical sense (excluding nonsense) is part of our world and therefore part of monism. There may exist other realities, which would make reality plural, but none of them can interact with each other — neither through our logic or mathematics, nor through physical experiments. As soon as there is any connection, it becomes part of our world.

   If you wish to define pluralism differently, you could take as a basis for the separation of realities a level that is impossible for us to access, such as the Planck scale. In that case, we could imagine a mathematics that is correct in theory and gives rise to a completely different world — one capable of creating another universe, with life or without it. However, this mathematics could not interact with our own, because it would be incompatible and would produce nonsense in any attempt to merge the two.

   For example, consider a multipolar mathematics with more than two signs: not just negative and positive, but A, B, and C.

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   The comment continues on my blog..
   https://old.rip/2026/05/19/a-discussion-on-the-ontology-of-reality-amahury-jafet-lopez-diaz-carlos-gershenson-garcia-richard-watson-michael-levin/

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