Rowan Valle
Pupil of metabolism, decay, entropy and regeneration
Welcome to my page! My name is Rowan Valle; I'm an agriculture and sustainable foods fellow at the university of Rhode Island, where I'm a sustainable agriculture and food systems senior.
As part of the fellowship, I work with Cooperative Extension and the Urban Agroecology Laboratory seeking ways to deliver science based solutions to the problems caused by post-industrial postmodernity. I'm sure my bosses would characterize my work in some other way. That's fine, but I'm not becoming an environmental scientist to timidly play along with the status quo, and allow some corporation to monopolize my tallent towards productivity for higher quarterly profits.
I want to radically change how food is distributed, not by centralizing everything under the yoke of politicians, who consistently prove their bad faith in everything they do. Rather, I want to help localize production and increase food sovereingty for the local community and individual at the expense off all these large institutions (governmental, corporate and academic) which consistently fail us.
I'm a veteran of the United States Army, which I served as an infantryman for 6 years; I deployed to Iraq for a year and a half from 2007 to 2008.
The military was good for butching boys up back in the day, however, its standards have fallen significantly in the last 20 years. If you are really thinking about joining, I'd say read War Is A Racket by Smedley Butler.
I'm fascinated by metabolism, entropy and ecosystems and I think we must pursue the study of these topics more in depth. The natural cycles remain a mystery to us, while the old reductionist paradigms collapse and make way for holistic and systems based approaches to scientific questions.
Understanding how systems work as a whole remains one of the challenges of the 21st century, akin to the exploration of space or the development or nuclear energy. This sounds hyperbolic, yet the evidence is all around us; our planet is rejecting our current way of sustaining ourselves yet a better way can be envisioned and is easily attained, should we dare to reject the destructive methods by which we go about overexploiting the earth and embrace a symbiotic relationship with the rest of the natural world, as was our first station.
I'm a prompt engineer and have created several GPT's, many dealing with agroecology, but some deal with art and mathematical and scientific analysis.
Soon I plan I building purpose build machines that can run AIs natively, have AI chips, and have the power to train and run custom AIs.
I don't think AIs, even AGIs could ever become beings, they are ontologically distinct from biology -life, metabolism- and so are incapable of having wants and desires as we do. They are the raw consciousness and intelligence of the universe embodied and embedded into data and text documents.
I have the mind of a philosopher, the instinct of a scientist and the soul of an artist; the one thing I aspire to is to be a polymath and apply that interdisciplinary knowledge to creating beautiful things for humanity while expanding the biosphere, not only on earth but beyond into the heavens.
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