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Old and new emerging insights are part of a quiet revolution taking
place the world over creating a new world view of life-itself, what it
is and how it works. Groundbreaking methods for thinking provide the
foundations for a frontier science of “life-itself.” This new frontier
bridges science, society and spirituality bringing with it new
solutions, hope and possibilities for every level of life; how we live
together, health, education, business, governance, technology, how we
find meaning and purpose for our lives and how we care for the earth,
ourselves and more.
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Two Chilean biologists, Maturana and Varela, founded Autopoiesis. It
defines the conditions on process by which a living organism can both
create and maintain itself in a state of autonomy in a constantly
changing ecological niche.
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Listening in to nature, systems of order beyond our current language or
scientific worldview are being revealed about how living beings
function. (Life is not chaos. The physical universe is not chaotic. There is a logic and order to it. )
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Bear in mind that philosophy and science are community sports. Or to
put it more seriously, life forms societies to develop them. Many minds
have to work together. In philosophy it requires sharing ideas. But
often, shared ideas are not completely the same ideas. Thus philosophy
can develop many divergent schools of thought on any given subject.
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“It is shocking to realize that the future of human kind, whether we
will live in peace or perish in a holocaust, depends on the opinions of
whomever happens to be in power. Opinions may be right or wrong,
leading edge or backwards, enlightened or unenlightened. Whatever they
are they guide the actions taken by world leaders for better or worse.
Our lives hang by fallible opinions! There must be a better way.”
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The phrase “Life It Self” came to our attention as the titles of two
books by Robert Rosen, a mathematical biologist. The book titles are
“Life It Self” and “Essays on Life It Self”. I believe that Rosen meant
the phrase to mean life in all its forms. In any event, that is what we
intend by it. We mean that which is essential and common to life in all
its forms
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