You need to start thinking in systems https://t.co/WS3mXQ5JNO

My current view is that we’ve discovered a kind of natural universal memory phenomenon that’s a property of all matter, living and non-living. A natural tendency of information to get tangled up with space, time, and matter that allows it to become experientially self-reporting. It’s weird to think of memory outside of the context of living beings... See more

I don't think it's an ontology we need, but a desmology— in Greek

desmos means connection, or link. . . . What interests me is not so much

the state of things but the relations between them. I've concerned myself

with nothing but relations for my whole life.

—Michel Serres