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Letter: Are all living things linked with each other?

Published 9 November 2022

From Graham Hagens, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

One could imagine a social aspect to the nature of reality explored in Michael Brooks’s fascinating article on whether objects exist. To a great extent, human awareness of self relies on reflections of one another, in addition to the less cognitive reality around us. Perhaps all living creatures are inextricably entangled(15 October, p 44).

Arguably, the more one flirts with the hubris of solipsism, the greater the danger of approaching a black hole of derangement.

Issue no. 3412 published 12 November 2022

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