This blog is intended as a companion interface for my forthcoming book Wild Integrity: An Essay Tree (to be released in summer 2023). The book’s heartwood grows ring by ring, essay by essay, around the question: what does it mean to be human? In this age of techno-transhumanistic aspirations, AI, and commitment to a metaversal reality utterly divorced from the given reality of rivers, trees, and mountains, the time to revisit this question is long overdue.