In ecological design, you focus on the interdependent parts in situ, operating in parallel, creating cyclical feedback at the local and macro levels to create a whole or an observable different state.

If intelligence is the capacity to synthesize knowledge as logic and apply that logic to make decisions, then the Solar Protocol platform relies on an intelligence that emerges from earthly dynamics: specifically that of the sun’s interaction with the Earth. Our lives have always been directed by a range of natural logics that emerge from the intermittent dynamics of our shared environment. Weather, seasons, tides and atmospheric conditions all dictate our behavior, enabling and constraining our movements, food production and cultures. Solar Protocol uses these logics to automate decisions about how the network operates and what content is shown at different times of the day

EVANS: Can I share a fear with you? My fear is that the vital importance of wisdom that is rooted in place — and by that, I mean everything from Indigenous land management to the lessons we learn studying ecology in context — comes into view just as place itself disappears. You write about plants needing to migrate 115 centimeters a day to survive climate change. How can we nurture knowledge that is rooted in place as zones of habitability shift? Can we move knowledge 115 centimeters a day to keep pace? 

BRIDLE: I think it’s what we do all the time. The reason this is urgent and a fight is because we are literally losing knowledge. Through habitat destruction, through climate change, through loss of biodiversity — it is knowledge that is being lost. But that process is hardly new. It’s been going on for centuries, if not millennia. It’s the main action of colonialism and imperialism. It’s just a fight. And it’s going to keep being a fight. But of course we can move these...

In my own garden in Los Angeles the finch nesting in my mallow pips insistently whenever anyone comes near. The wildflowers are already going to seed. A big planet separates us, but for the moment, Bridle and I share a screen, and for that we are indebted to the vast computational reality that contains, counts, and corrupts the larger world of swallows and finches. It is this reality, Bridle writes, that needs re-wilding if we are to survive the coming decades.

Learning is the process of acquiring values from the environment

A site is a beautifully organised series of lists

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simply form emerging from feeling

This activating sensitivity to environmental conditions is the very source of life’s mutation of forms, its intergenerational power.