How Forests Think

Key Insight 1: Anthropology Must Think Beyond the Human.

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Key Insight 2: Representation and Thought Extend Beyond Human Language.

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Key Insight 3: Life Itself Is Semiotic: All Living Beings Think.

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Key Insight 4: The World Is an Ecology of Selves.

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Key Insight 5: Nonhuman Thinking Embraces Confusion and Indistinction.

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Key Insight 6: Human Language Emerges From, But Is Not Separate From, Life's Semiosis.

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Key Insight 7: Trans-Species Communication Reveals Hierarchies and Power.

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Key Insight 8: Form: A Non-Living Reality Shapes Life's Patterns.

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Key Insight 9: The "All Too Human" Entangles With Nonhuman Lives.

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Key Insight 10: The Living Future Is Haunted by the Weight of the Dead.

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Key Insight 11: Spirits and Afterlife Are Emergent Realities Beyond Life.

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Key Insight 12: Survival Means Navigating a Complex, Relational Cosmos.

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