Category: Organisms
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Retrospective 2024-01
This is a retrospective of the first week 2024 (2024-01-01–2024-01-07). I will write in both English and Swedish because I write for myself. Newborn thoughts are easier to express in my native language (Swedish). However, most of what I read is in English and then I will stick to English. For the most part, I…
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Neil Turok on Life
The following quote is from Brian Keating‘s interview with Neil Turok on October 2, 2022: I think, and it may sound strange from a physicist, but I think the most fascinating thing in the universe is Life, and how it’s organized… What is the law that governs life, that tells you that life will emerge?…
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Six features of organisms
Iain McGilchrist suggests in his book The Matter with Things that there are broadly six features that stand out in the description of organisms in contradiction to the metaphor of the machine. They are references to actively co-ordinated processes,expressing a sense of wholeness,inextrictably linked with values, meaning and purpose,leading to self-realization.