**Links to**: [[Decision]], [[Desire]], [[Volition]], [[Orientation]], [[Perspective]], [[Interest]], [[Intentionality]], [[Attention]], [[Sense]], [[Drive]], [[Desire]], [[Inclination]]; [[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]], [[06 Principle of Sufficient Interest]], [[Meat puppet]], [[Filter]], [[Principle of Sufficient Reason]], [[Aim-oriented]], [[Orientation]], [[Vector]], [[Dialove]].   Each creature, epoch, i.e., each *perspective*, etc., inevitably cares about different things. We, “homo sapiens” creatures, tend to care about others, sometimes these are homo sapiens, sometimes other kinds of friends. Sometimes, conflicts emerge when we cannot decide between something being a friend or food (or worse). When we struggle with questions such as “what is the boundary between life and non-life?”, we’re not essentially concerned with a natural physical category, but with an ethical one. We seem to care about *life* because we care about the chunks of things that get to go on. It’s not that much of a stretch to see an animated reality all the way down: atoms persist, cells persist, organisms persist, communities persist. Chunks that go on come in all shapes and sizes. All folded atop of each other, all enabling each other through the interactions between their constraint regimes: the atoms make the molecules make the proteins, etc. But the organism sees the atom (where seeing, as measurement, means interaction). This “participatory” situation renders our ethics, because caring decisions have to be made. Care is an interesting orienting device.   %% [[Care notes]].