Claudia Befu
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Cognitive Ecology

“There is no nature, there’s only this planet on which we all live.”

Cognitive Ecology is a serialized notebook of philosophical meditations on the future of life on Earth, our techno-utopian dreams, and our relationship with the living world. Issued bi-weekly.

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Contents

Divided into three sections, the notebook unfolds seasonally through thematic meditations.

01 / Spring 2026

The Human

42 meditations on what it means to be human in a technological world

  1. Intro
  2. Digital loneliness [1–4]
  3. Life and the universe [5–7]
  4. Embodied existence [8–13]
  5. Rewilding the self [14–17]
  6. Embodied cognition [18–20]
  7. Human extraction [21–26]
  8. End users [27–35]
  9. Cognitive sovereignty [36–42]

02 / Autumn 2026

The Planet

20 meditations on the relationship with our home planet in a consumerist world

  1. Intro
  2. We didn’t master nature [43–44]
  3. A thousand cuts [45–46]
  4. Technological beasts [47–49]
  5. One blue planet [50–51]
  6. Nature is our home planet [52–54]
  7. What will we leave behind? [55–56]
  8. Real abundance [57–62]

03 / Winter 2027

The Future

  1. Our modern society
  2. Our capitalist minds
  3. Something to be mastered
  4. Biological algorithm
  5. The slingshot of progress
  6. Only living beings have cognition
  7. We can never be superhuman
  8. The most precious thing we have
  9. Our cognitive ecology

Epilogue

  1. Don’t make your mind impatient

Born at 340 ppm.

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