Thank Virus for Symbiosis

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Timothy Morton (philosopher and professor at the Rice University in Houston, USA) is concerned with the question of how humans relate to ecology. 12.500 years ago, we divided the world into nature and culture, into man and animal, with man in the leading role. This way of thinking in terms of boundaries and species, also known as anthropocentrism, must change because humans, animals, and things are interwoven, according to Morton. We are all symbiotic beings that are intertwined with other symbiotic beings.