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mycelia
... See moreRelational infrastructure refers to the social connections, interactions, and collective intelligence that underpin a community, network or group's ability to collaborate, solve problems, and drive change. It is an emergent framework of trust, shared values, and common goals that allows individuals, groups, and organizations to work together
Sam Rye • On Relational Infrastructure
Neil Theise
the literal word for individual means indivisible. And so many collaborations are indivisible. Like, lots of plants, if you take away their my fungi, even though the my fungi is a different organism, the plants wouldn't be the plants.
Emergence Magazine • The Substrate of Mystery: Mycelial Networks, Mutualism, and Symbiosis – A Conversation With Merlin Sheldrake
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The teeming hordes of living things on Earth, not only in space but in time, are actually all one massive, single organism just as certainly as each one of us (in our own minds) seems to be a distinct human being throughout our limited lifetime... Each of us is, equally, an independent living human and also just one utterly minute, utterly brief... See more
Maria Popova • Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
It is difficult to consider this perspective without trembling with the question of what it even means to exist — and to cease existing. With his particular life-focused lens on mortality — as the child of two Holocaust survivors, as a gay man who survived the AIDS epidemic that killed many of his friends — Theise offers a redemptive answer:
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Maria Popova • Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Incarnation
Relational infrastructure is only really seen when you know what you're looking for - much like the web of mycelium connecting trees in our forests that make the flow of communication, resources, and mutual intermingling possible, and enable life to thrive.
Sam Rye • On Relational Infrastructure
from the point of view of the network, mycelium is a single interconnected entity. But from the point of view of a hypha, mycelium is a multitude.
Emergence Magazine • The Substrate of Mystery: Mycelial Networks, Mutualism, and Symbiosis – A Conversation With Merlin Sheldrake
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