Then again, there are the ways we are, as humans, similar, but still biased, as these tactile, linear, object oriented monkey brains.
For instance, as mobile organisms, this sentient interface between body and situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our concept of time is as the present moving past to future, when the evident reality is that action and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
If you asked a plant what time is, it will tell you it's cycles of expansion and consolidation. We might think of time as this narrative flow, but everything we use to measure it are regular cycles.
There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Culture informs us good and bad are a cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but to nature it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.
That's because it's the function of culture to synchronize society into a communal organism, based on the same languages, rules and measures, but nature is multicultural, not monocultural. Not everyone marches to the beat of the same drummer. Synchronization versus harmonization.
Our physiology evolved around the need to swing around branches, making us quite tactile and very focused on judging distances. Which then evolved from swinging from branches, to throwing sticks.
Land based prey animals, on the other hand, have eyes more toward the sides of their heads, in order to be spatially aware, with greater need for fast reactions, than complex thought.
We also try to describe a dualistic reality in monolithic terms. We seek that pot of gold at the end of the narrative arc, when it's more feedback between the polarities.
Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.
The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion, as the Empire solidified out of the ashes of the Republic. Essentially to validate The Big Guy Rules.
The problem is it conflates the ideal with the absolute.
Ideals are not absolutes and the premise only leads to unreconcilable conflict, between all the competing ideals and resulting ideologies.
Nature is bottom up, with everything rising and falling, like so many waves, while culture is top down, where the central totem is not to be questioned, even with it becomes evident the positive feedback has turned negative.
Currently even all the branding of ideologies has fallen away and it's just rank power and wealth leveraging more power and wealth, with no circuit breakers, so we are heading for the Big Meltdown.
The Mother of all Reality Checks is in the mail.
