questions pt. 1

how do apes interact with their environment during the climate apocalypse?

how are those interactions changing?

how can we model our behaviour after our ape relatives in order to better exist in the world?

what is ape about us?

what is human about them?

what should our interactions with other primates look like?

is ecotourism ethical?

what is intelligence?

does it matter?

how can we make knowledge production actually productive and not just extractive?

who gets to ask the questions?

at whose cost?

are we responsible for creating meaning in our lives?

why does meaning feels less important when i can feel myself creating it?

is meaning that is stumbled upon better than meaning that is created?

is purpose an artificial concept?

do we care about anything or do we just tell ourselves that we do?

how do stories factor into the creation of meaning?

is life just a story we are telling ourselves?

how do you balance satisfaction of the self with fulfilling your duty to the earth?

is there a way to make those two things the same?