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by matteodimaio 1770 days ago
As “mind-bogglingly theoretical” as quantum physics, indeed! A similar new framework describing biological systems as “information flow” is discussed in Quanta’s wrap-up of the biggest things in biology 2020.[1] These lines of thought seem to also lead to those kinds of superficially dismissible but ontologically interesting questions as: Is America the country an organism? Is America ‘alive’? [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDsA7SE-3c