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#+title: 2023-02-07 - Tuesday

* DONE Talk to Emma about Challenger camp dates @emma :family:chore:
CLOSED: [2023-02-07 Tue 11:58] DEADLINE: <2023-02-07 Tue>

[[id:8a0705fb-8c57-45bd-b1b2-a041b4dea3c0][Challenger Center Camps 2023]]

* DONE Vet appointment for [[id:dab0e5e9-390c-421c-8c93-bf768afcbecb][Mr. Jackson]] surgery :appointment:vet:jackson:
CLOSED: [2023-02-07 Tue 11:56] DEADLINE: <2023-02-07 Tue 7:30-8:30>

* DONE Follow up with Cheryl about taxes :taxes:chore:
CLOSED: [2023-02-07 Tue 11:55]
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[[id:2578e88f-ee11-4231-bdbe-addef81c21aa][Cheryl Boulet]]
* DONE Follow up with Johanna Barrett about tall ships :bicenntenial:municipal:email:
CLOSED: [2023-02-07 Tue 11:56]
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* DONE Pay Osborne's bill :chore:bill:
CLOSED: [2023-02-07 Tue 14:53]
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Total was $580, put it on the Citi card

* Timeline

- Note taken on [2023-02-07 Tue 17:17]

I had a wonderful catch-up call with Jacob this afternoon. I kept thinking
  that the lack of conversations since the holidays was the beginning of the end
  of our contact. But when I jumped on the call today, not only was [[id:b1233dda-63d9-4d96-9371-62fbaa53dca2][Jacob]]
  on, but [[id:164e6885-635a-4b53-a7be-fa64685b5ccb][Chip Molter]] was there too!

- Note taken on [2023-02-07 Tue 11:45]

I don't usually read the Harper's that [[id:81b49039-0700-451d-9f45-1f0880e4ca76][Johanna]] subscribes me to when it
  comes. But the last issue had an excerpt from [[id:e8177698-2ddf-4e25-b27a-7d286291edb2][Olga Tokarczuk]] which discusses
  how science is generally bad at future prognostication. There's usually a
  required subtlety to thinking about the future where life evolves much more
  slowly or insidiously than most people expect. Thus, rather than flying cars
  we end up with ubiquitous communication.

On that plane, science fiction writers have historically been able to make
  those subtle jumps much easier than pure logic. It takes a certain romanticism
  to predict that people will largely remain unchanged even as we develop new
  technology, and that human problems will persist as technology changes.

But that's a diversion from Olga's main thrust, which is that scientific
  paradigm shifts are hard for science to detect. Heliocentrist was considered a
  belief -- a heretical belief -- for a long time. Thinking about this, our
  current understanding of the body's association with other living things comes
  from a Western theology that trumps the individuality of each human as primal.
  But we are beginning to discover that our gut biome may actually be finely
  tuned to ourselves. That bacteria on our skin is important to certain
  biological processes.

That begs the question, what if we are not individuals. What if we are the sum
  of many living parts and that our myopic view of ourselves as individuals is
  cloudy our ability to see how inter-dependent all living creatures are,
  especially with regards to fungus and bacteria. What if the poly-self is our
  heliocentric world shift? Have we misunderstood oursevles?