| Matthew Taylor, Guest Editor | Introduction |
| Benchmarks | Benchmarks (Anthropoetics XXX, no. 1) |
| By Izumi Dryden | Music in Nature and Nursing: Musico-Philosophical Perspectives on the Ontological Dichotomies of Charles Darwin and Florence Nightingale |
| By Tomoya Fujihara | The Origin of Language from the Perspective of Language Functions in Aphasic Patients |
| By Kiyoshi Kawahara | Language generation from the perspective of esoteric Buddhist philosophy and ba linguistics |
| By Gregory J Lobo | Homo imaginatus: Generative Anthropology, prefrontal synthesis and the origins of the human |