My responsibility in a full cosmos

Robinson Jeffers: As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from. How does living in a full cosmos affect my daily life? As dear old Robinson says, it unhumanizes my views a little; it de-centers me. In an empty cosmos, humans alone have agency. Humans can be acted upon by impersonal forces, certainly, but those actions are definitionally meaningless. Only agency imparts meaning. In a full cosmos, many persons–to repeat, only some of whom are human–are acting according to various interests. What’s more, many human persons thought to be fully responsible agents are ridden by bandit powers. Co-creation in relationship (consciously or unconsciously) is the law of a full cosmos. In an empty cosmos, agency is too heavy a weight for a single person to bear. In an empty cosmos, it is indeed true that “the greatest misfortune that ever befell a primate was rational self-awareness.”…