Sublime

It appears that nutrient exchange and helping neighbors in times of need is the rule, and this leads to the conclusion that forests are superorganisms with interconnections much like ant colonies.

many scientists consider us to be symbiotic organisms, beings defined by a particular set of relationships: there is the host (us), all the other organisms that live upon and within us, and the ecological landscapes in which we live.15 “Mi anokhi?” Who are we? Indeed. We are the ongoing aliveness of the world. We are the meeting point of trillions

Complex systems science is different. It seeks order by understanding how simple parts, interacting together and perhaps adapting to one another, create an entirely new whole. The

The emerging new scientific conception of life, which we summarized in our Preface, can be seen as part of a broader paradigm shift from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological worldview. At its very core we find a shift of metaphors that is now becoming ever more apparent, as discussed by Capra (2002) – a change from seeing the world as a machi

In biology, an ecosystem encompasses a community of interacting species and their nonliving environment. All components play a part in determining the characteristics, from the type of soil to the amount of sun or water available. Some animals cooperate, others compete, and changes in any component can affect both the fitness of individual species

Ultimately, when you change the environment inside of and around you, you can finally gain control of your biology instead of being jerked around by your base instincts. Your biology is everything—your body, mind, and even spirit.

A swarm of bees, a colony of ants and a collection of neurons: three independently evolved assemblages which each constitute a thinking machine. This is convergent evolution at work again, the flowering of analogous but radically different ways of thinking and doing, all over the thicket of life.