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Organisms are self-causing agencies. Every self is a tautology: self-evident, self-referential, self-centered, and self-created.

The work of managing a natural environment is inescapably a work of local knowledge.

When everything happens at once, wide and fast moving problems simply route around any central authority. Therefore overall governance must arise from the most humble interdependent acts done locally in parallel, and not from a central command.

Life is in the business of making its environment agreeable for life.

Evolution is a technological, mathematical, informational, and biological process rolled into one. It could almost be said to be a law of physics, a principle that reigns over all created multitudes, whether they have genes or not.

The capacity to evolve must be evolved itself. Evolution has been, and will keep on, exploring the space of possible evolutions. Organisms, memes, the whole ball of wax are only evolution's way to keep evolving.

Life is a verb not a noun.

In turbulence is the preservation of the world.

Life is a transforming flood that fills up empty containers and then spills out of them on its way to fill up more. The shape and number of vessels submerged by the flood doesn't make a bit of difference.

The hardest lesson for humans to learn: that organic complexity will entail organic time.

The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated.

Memory is a reenactment of perception, indistinguishable from the original act of knowing.