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quote:what-one-must-imagine-is-an-incredible-hive-of-activity-at-every-level-of-magnification-of-music-being-made-using-more-than-two-thirds-of-the-73-octaves-of-the-electromagnetic-spectrum-locally-appearing-as-though-chaotic-and-yet-perfectly-coordinated-as-a-whole

What one must imagine is an incredible hive of activity, at every level of magnification—of music being made using more than two thirds of the 73 octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum—locally appearing as though chaotic, and yet perfectly coordinated as a whole.

Mae-Wan Ho's beautiful description of the living organism, which Alexander cites as poetic yet still mechanistic.

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  • The confluence of quantum physics, systems theory, chaos theory, complexity theory, and biology attempting a more holistic picture of the universe as an unbroken whole.

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