Bibliographic record
Abstract
Summary This article reimagines scuba diving as a form of ethnographic immersion that allows humans to experience life on earth from an underwater perspective. I argue that scuba divers are both posthuman in their cyborgian transcendence of the basic limitations of our species and prehuman in their metaphorical regression into womb‐like oceans, from which all life on earth evolved. I conceptualize divers as (p)reborn humans. Underwater, symbolic modes of human communication devolve to iconic and indexical forms of gesturing that are more in tune with surrounding ecosystems. Scuba diving involves shamanic navigation between lifeworlds, processes that are deeply ritualistic and psychoanalytically significant. Through first‐hand narrative accounts, divers bring new forms of relational knowledge into the public sphere. Bearing in mind the politics of being underwater, I contend that scuba diving can foster a change in how humans apprehend the ocean, from top‐down representation to bottom‐up lived experience. Scuba diving reshapes attention in ways that could inspire collective appreciation for the blue planet that sustains us. Against the backdrop of global environmental change, I call for a shift in the way that humans see and think about the ocean, from above water to below.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".