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Transdisciplinary Meeting Proposal
I very much appreciate and am excited about the possibility of trans-disciplinary conversations. In my experience I have found though that good intentions on all sides are not sufficient in order for such a conversation to fruitfully take place. In what follows I would like to do three things:
1) describe the situation (what it seems to me normally happens in the attempt at trans-disciplinary conversations)
2) diagnose the situation (the reasons why the situation plays out in the way it does), and

Starting from "what happened here before"....
Gary Snyder begins a poem called “What Happened Here Before”:
— 300,000,000—
First a sea: soft sands, muds, and marls
— loading, compressing, heating, crumpling,
crushing, recrystallizing, infiltrating,
several times lifted and submerged,
intruding molten granite magma
deep-cooled and speckling,
gold quartz fills the cracks…
(and continues, quite a few stanzas later…)
—40,000—
And human people came with basket hats and nets
winter-houses and underground
yew bows painted green,
feasts and dances for the boys and girls