Category: Order
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The structure of matter can retain the memory of life
The axiom of biology is that energy flow is necessary to maintain the dynamic organization of living systems, and that as soon as the energy flow is interrupted it leads to disintegration and death. Mae-Wan Ho shares research on the bine shrimp Artemia where the cessation of energy flow does not necessarily lead to death.1…
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The dynamic order within organisms
The pictures on the front page of Mae-Wan Ho’s book The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms show the dynamic order within organisms. The pictures were taken with polarizing light microscopy.1 The light passing through experiences perfect order att every instant. The molecules in tissues and cells are globally aligned and move coherently…
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Christopher Alexander on the Nature of Deeper Order
The Real Nature of Human Feeling There is a way of understanding order which is general. It is a view of order which helps us understand natural beauty and the life in buildings. It is a view which changes our cosmology. Christopher Alexander assumed the real nature of human feeling — that human feeling is…
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David Bohm and F. David Peat on Deeper Order
David Bohm and F. David Peat explored the meaning of order in Science, Order, and Creativity. They investigated order in science, creativity, and life in general. Our values, and the ways in which we perceive the world, communicate, and act are held in particular kinds of order. To live within the context of a given…