I’m going to begin by doubling down on something I don’t recall mentioning for a while: the principle, or imperative, “to each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities.” I won’t spend too much time defending the phrase against its communist “taint”—of course, I first came across it in Marx’s
I enjoyed this fleshing out of previous concepts i’ve sometimes struggled with. I won’t try to say more now as i’ve got a bad cold or flu and can’ think well but it’s reminded me to ask what you meant by a line that startled me: “Certainly microbial, viral and conceptual transformations are connected in ways we haven’t yet explored”. Are you suggesting a microbial influence on your concepts?
I enjoyed this fleshing out of previous concepts i’ve sometimes struggled with. I won’t try to say more now as i’ve got a bad cold or flu and can’ think well but it’s reminded me to ask what you meant by a line that startled me: “Certainly microbial, viral and conceptual transformations are connected in ways we haven’t yet explored”. Are you suggesting a microbial influence on your concepts?
Maybe, ultimately, yes, but that's more some reading I'm doing that's starting to infiltrate my writing.