Our Exo-metabolism
Everybody has to work for a living. From the most primitive bacterium, to his cousin the investment banker, every living organism has to dissipate energy to build and maintain its complex molecular structure. “Do...
Category: Philosophy
Engineered Evolution
If evolution were an epic novel, I suggest that it would be divided into three books, a trilogy. Each book begins with one of the three greatest evolutionary innovations. Book One begins with the...
Prelude: Knowledge
We learn and invent signs and sounds to refer to patterns, and use them to facilitate and communicate thought and intention.
Turtles all the way down…
Every “thing” we can name is a system, containing components which interact. And of course, every component is a thing and thus another system, containing another level of components.
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