Reply #7: Something like that

[kiahzero]

I have a cosmology - a scientific sense about the organization of the universe. Humans aren't "related to" this cosmology except in the banal spatial sense: we're on the planet Earth in the orbit of Sol in the Milky Way galaxy, etcetera etcetera. This might be termed the "Monty Python" answer. There's no real heterogeneity of value here.

Then there's my cosmogony, my world, my order. It doesn't conflict with the cosmology; it's the story. it's the pattern, it's the axes on the grid. This is where the heterogeneity of value comes in. In this story, humans obviously play a central part - it's all we know, so how could it really be any different? There may be fictional non-human entities in there too, because I tend to pick up themes from fiction, and some fiction with good themes includes such entities, but ultimately it all boils down to us.

Does that make any sense whatsoever? I just got out of a Civil Procedure exam a few hours ago, so I make no guarantees about my coherency.