Botany as the Path to Awareness, or the Flower as a Grail In Thomas Wharton's Icefields
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Abstract
In the novel Icefields by Canadian novelist Thomas Wharton, plants are more than incidental elements. Vegetation appears as a living form of writing in nature that enables men and women to understand life and their relationship to the world. It can also be seen as the Grail that the alpinist sets out to find and that reveals the need to leave plants in place and not destroy the environment for motives of profit. This paper aims to show that the imagination may convey an ecological message and that ecological consciousness may lead to metaphysical awareness. En la novela Icefields, del autor canadiense Thomas Wharton, el mundo vegetal es algo más que un elemento accesorio. La vegetación parece ser una forma viva de escritura de la naturaleza que permite a los hombres y a las mujeres entender la vida y su relación con el mundo. Puede también considerarse como un Grial que el alpinista busca y que le revelará la necesidad de dejar que la planta crezca en su medio ambiente sin destruir el mismo con miras mercantiles. Este artículo trata de mostrar que la imaginación puede ser un medio para comunicar un mensaje ecológico y que una conciencia ecológica puede llevarnos a una conciencia metafísica.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".