Ever since John Conway introduced the game of Life in 1970 [2], amateur and professional mathematicians have been obsessed by finding new complicated structures, and finding new applications for the seemingly chaotic behavior of Life forms. Perhaps its addictive nature stems from the simplistic rules: each cell on a square lattice is either on (alive) or off (dead). The Moore neighborhood of a ...

Abstract What kind of guidance can the world Eduardo Kohn calls “forest” provide for living well on Earth in times planetary anthropogenic ecological fragmentation? How, that is, humans learn to ecologize their ethics? Reflecting his ongoing ethnographic research and around Indigenous communities Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, uses what he learned help find a path orient attempts live relation many ki...