“Given the striking similarities between principles that govern human nature and those that direct the growth and flourishing of the natural world, what can we learn about human flourishing by applying Mencius’s metaphor of cultivation?” Part II of a mini series of essays excerpted from Jeremy Lent’s brilliant The Web of Meaning. #consciousevolution https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/blog/flourishing-as-an-integrated-organism Given […]

“The Second Law of Thermodynamics can be seen as the foundation for natural selection.” Read the first of a mini-series of articles published on #consciousevolution from the brilliant The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent. https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/blog/what-does-life-want The story of life’s deep purpose begins, ironically, with death. A certain kind of death: the ‘heat death’ that

“Every major evolutionary step since life began on Earth was a result of increased cooperation between different types of organisms. Life is not a zero-sum game: through symbiosis, species have co-created ecosystems in which the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts. An ecosystem arises from organisms acting together in a complex

“We can understand life itself as a fractal: a series of natural attractors exhibiting similar principles at different scales, from microscopic cells to organisms and entire ecosystems.” Introducing a mini-series of articles published on #consciousevolution from the brilliant The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent. https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/blog/what-does-life-want The story of life’s deep purpose begins, ironically, with

“Life’s deep purpose is to maintain and regenerate itself to make more life in an ongoing rebellion against the law of entropy. Every organism is a purposive, persistent, dynamic pattern of energy flow, playing its part in the larger drama of life’s defiance of the law of entropy. Evolution is the process of life developing

“We are blended organisms arising from the patterns of connectivity between the networks we identify as ‘I’ and ‘self ’. My true identity doesn’t exist in ‘I’ or my ‘self ’, but emerges dynamically from how ‘I’ interact with my ‘self ’. When ‘I’ welcome and honor the various needs and feelings of my ‘self

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“Once you start seeing living entities as patterns of energy flows, there’s no reason to draw artificial lines separating them.” Introducing a mini-series of articles published on #consciousevolution from the brilliant The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent. https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/blog/what-does-life-want The story of life’s deep purpose begins, ironically, with death. A certain kind of death: the

‘Everything that lives wants more of life. Organisms are beings whose own existence means something to them.’ Introducing a mini-series of articles published on #consciousevolution from the brilliant The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent. https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/blog/what-does-life-want The story of life’s deep purpose begins, ironically, with death. A certain kind of death: the ‘heat death’ that