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• 1 2018-10-16T04:10:30-07:00 The Four-Dimensional, Time-Travelling, Shape-Changing Bioblob called Life 8 The interconnectedness of all living things plain 2019-03-12T04:28:52-07:00 - Antonia Parker
  
  The Animal Worlds idea of the 'humanimal', that humans are not apart from animals, I thought linked closely to the idea of the 'Bioblob' that we touched on in Extinctions. This is the idea that animals only exist as separate organisms, different from each other and humans, if thought of from our limited viewpoint, constrained to three dimensions. This falls apart if we look at life from the perspective of the fourth dimension, time.

  Looking backwards along the axis of time, the whole of life is seen as a single, time-travelling, shape-changing creature--the dynamic, four-dimensional 'Bioblob'. Back through time, every creature that has ever lived is connected by deathless cytoplasm to every other. None of us nor any blade of grass is alone; death and distinction are illusions of limited vision.

  from Riversleigh: The Story of Animals in Ancient Rainforests of Inland Australia by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp.
  
  We have created these anthropocentric divisions between ourselves and the rest of life, and between all the different so-called 'kinds' of life, but the reality that any taxonomist will confirm is that most of these divisions are, on some level, arbitrary. Life doesn't fit into neat little categories. It's all connected. The Bioblob shows us that we are not distinct from animals, and animals are not distinct from the rest of life. All of life is one.
  
  Archer, Michael, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp. Riversleigh: The Story of Animals in Ancient Rainforests of Inland Australia. Reed Books, Sydney, 1991. Print.
  Disney. "We Are One" from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. Uploaded to YouTube 2011. ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O80wWDwP8vE.