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Thanks for posting those bios sketches. What's important, as I go through them, is they evoke a certain world view, or conceptual grasp of what we are living in, our habitat(my word, not Harvey's). Harvey mentioned some of this.
You need an another concept or model for your mental frame. I use habitat. It sounds like a hippy idea, and indeed it started out that way for me. But that isn't it. The key thing, I think, is to study a little descriptive biological ecology. Stephen Gould comes in handy here. It's the basic idea that an organism doesn't exist without its habitat, its medium in the world. A habitat actually forms the totality of an organism's relationships with the world and interconnects the organism with other relationships in the biological and physical world.
^^^^^ CB: Yeah. That's where materialism starts. See _The German Ideology_ ; and materialist anthropology. Leslie White, Conrad Kottak , et al.