Title: thepopupschool / Habitat and Habitas

Question: What two terms help us understand the idea that everything is interconnected?
Answer: Habitat and habitas.

Question: What is the root of the words "habitat" and "habitas"?
Answer: "Dwell."

Question: The beaver depends on the pond (habitat) to live. How does the pond depend on the beaver?
Answer: The beaver's actions (habitas) help create and maintain the pond.

Question: Where is the habitas located?
Answer: It is internal. In the beaver example, it is the collection of action protocols partially embodied through interaction with the habitat and partially through behavioral instincts.

Question: Where are a beaver's instincts located?
Answer: Yes and no. Yes, because we can observe them in the beaver's body/brain. No, because the beaver's body is a habitat for other members with their own internal habitas.

Question: How does the author describe the deep continuity of life?
Answer: All members are active agents, interacting with and enacting their habitatThey also build unique and situationally intelligent action protocols, which internalize their habitat.

Question: How does observing a tree change the observer's internal habitat?
Answer: When a person sees a tree, it creates a cascade of actions in their body at microscopic scales, such as neurons trying to find each other and connect.

Question: How does the tree observation example demonstrate habitat and habitas?
Answer: The person's interaction with the tree (habitat) changes the habitat where their neurons seek to connect. The habitas of the neurons change individually and collectively.

Question: What happens to the observer in the tree example if they develop affection for the tree?
Answer: They develop new action protocols as a result of the interaction and infolding of the tree within them.

Question: Briefly explain the difference between habitat and habitas as understood in process relational philosophy?
Answer: Habitat is constituted by external relations, while habitas is constituted by internal relations.

Question: Which philosopher critiqued Nagarjuna's symmetrical understanding of emptiness and form?
Answer: Charles Hartshorne.
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