Toward Ecosophy

Even within reductionist science, there is something like a give-and-take. "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." Even when the paradigm of impersonal mathematical regularity is not set aside, by the rules of science everything else is fair game. And if you try to set that paradigm aside, sometimes you just get the paradigm of anthropomorphic psychology instead, which can prove to be constricted in its own way. The constraints of mathematics can be a tool for creating a cognitive space purified of some of one's own tendencies to presuppose things, or to confabulate things, in ways that can themselves get in the way of listening.