what made me wonder

The three hour long class on Thursday provided a plethora of content and ideas new to me. In my opinion, the relationships exercise provided the most interesting and thought provoking concepts. The idea that my dog and I could in some senses mutually own one another was not something I had previously acknowledged. However, in retrospect, I feel as though it is simply a false sense of human superiority that has caused me to believe that there is not a mutual ownership.

In general, the way in which objects and living things relate to each other confuses me. It is complicated and it is definitely messy. In this way, I have realised that I abstract relations in order to generate a false sense of a deeper understanding. However, I may need to go back to very root of what things are in order to actually achieve a deeper understanding. Everything is multi-causal and multi-faceted but I like the idea of understanding relationships and things for what they actually are.