[transmutation_of_species]

🦋 Our lived experiences tell us to expect that some things are blue and others green. Some have a certain shape and others have a certain smell. The categories become words that form sentences through which we read the world around us. These sentences are often conveniently misleading. A whole host of words that help us orient the natural world are gathered in the word “species”. We can with great granularity discern between one species of butterfly and another. For the butterflies, perhaps, things aren’t as granular, maybe for them, the concept of resonance is closer to their truth: For they, like all other life, are in constant mutation and transmutation. Ever evolving, adapting, interbre...View all