28-29.12.2022
Istanbul, Turkey.

Bosporus cats meeting bioisms. Their playfulness is biological intelligence. Play is a survival protocol. Play is evolution rehearsing in low-risk mode. Istanbul cats train their nervous system through the strange and unknown: speed, precision, object mapping, prediction, trust calibration, micro attack inhibition, soft contact, tactical withdrawal. All of this is high-resolution cognition. They learn bioisms by improvising with them. So when new pink biofacts appear in Istanbul the cats tap them with their paws. They turn them upside down. They rotate them. They explore them like puzzles that must be solved through touch and sniffing. They do not respond with conceptual theory. They respond with biological testing routines: is this soft? is this threatening? is this an invitation? They test the future through play. This is biology doing philosophy without words.
They metabolize strangeness through curiosity. They convert novelty into information through interaction.
Future ecosystems will expand this quality.
Post-traumatic cultures often lose the capacity to play. They lose exploratory impulse. They lose the minimal trust and confidence needed to approach unfamiliar forms. When play collapses, the future degrades. Biology needs play to invent new pathways. Evolution uses play to generate variation, to test possibility, to refine intelligence.
Bosporus cats are agents of alternative biological ethics. They show a possible future where new living forms do not require domination; coexistence can be established through gentle, playful biology rather than brutal force.