For me, one of the most interesting areas of philosophical discourses at the moment, is the debate on whether objects might have their own agency. If human beings are collections of living and non-living objects, then are other objects sentient in a way that we cannot understand? Like the tiny bacteria living in our own stomachs, are we essential living componants of much larger sentient objects?
This way of thinking has a profound effect on many aspects of human understanding, from our perspective on consciousness, to the romantic subjectivity of scientific materialism.
I filmed this particular piece of prose in the beautiful city of Kaohsuing in Taiwan.
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