Sublime

self-organization, processes which are thermodynamically favored and constructing at the same time higher order.

In the century and a half since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, we still are stymied by the complexity of the biosphere, and, just as with our financial systems, our efforts to intervene have often led to confounding results.

He has also served as executive editor and editor of the Bioneers anthology books series and executive producer and cowriter of the award-winning radio series: Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature.

petition, entitled “A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism,” expresses skepticism about the claims of random mutations and natural selections.17 “The complexity of life has to be taken into account,” it claims.

During the twenty-first century the border between history and biology is likely to blur not because we will discover biological explanations for historical events, but rather because ideological fictions will rewrite DNA strands; political and economic interests will redesign the climate; and the geography of mountains and rivers will give way to

for greater scientific understanding (23andMe) or in propagating user-submitted data to motivate behavior change in others (traineo).

Edward O. Wilson’s Consilience

The statistical properties of non-equilibrium systems can help us understand the nonhuman origins of information but not its endurance. Yet it is the endurance of information that allows information to be recombined and allows life and the economy to emerge. The endurance of information is therefore as important as its origin, since without it the