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My goal is to break this hierarchy in some way and serve the Slime Mold. I want to allow the Slime Mold to exploit ''me''. Some might say that this pyramid is already losing its form and (some) humans are starting to see other creatures at an equal level to themselves, in terms of importance. My observation is that almost everyone, including me, who thinks this way, only direct their sympathy towards complex, multicellular organisms, which they can emotionally relate to in some way. This is a reason why I want to go further than this selective equality and see the ''Physarum Polycephalum'', a unicellular organism, as being not equal to me, but more important than me as an inhabitant of the earth. | My goal is to break this hierarchy in some way and serve the Slime Mold. I want to allow the Slime Mold to exploit ''me''. Some might say that this pyramid is already losing its form and (some) humans are starting to see other creatures at an equal level to themselves, in terms of importance. My observation is that almost everyone, including me, who thinks this way, only direct their sympathy towards complex, multicellular organisms, which they can emotionally relate to in some way. This is a reason why I want to go further than this selective equality and see the ''Physarum Polycephalum'', a unicellular organism, as being not equal to me, but more important than me as an inhabitant of the earth. | ||
To be the Physarum's "slave", I need to first be comfortable with | To be the Physarum's "slave", I need to first be comfortable with letting it grow freely and to the max. | ||
In order to achieve this I tried merging Physarum specimens from two different petri dishes. | |||
''*: https://www.britannica.com/topic/anthropocentrism'' | ''*: https://www.britannica.com/topic/anthropocentrism'' | ||