linkedin post 2021-12-05 06:38:50

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PRE-EXISTING RELATIONS. “Rather than seeing shared metabolisms as the products of some sort of group selection operating on individual lineages—or, in any rare mitochondria-like cases, on some hologenome—to create multilineage interactions, we imagine that such interactions already exist.” https://lnkd.in/dk3R9p6y View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-12-07 05:37:39

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THE CRITICAL POINT. “The totality of the past is only frozen into reality at a particular point in spacetime to the extent that information or interactions have reached it, so the U-process always contains superpositions from the very distant past as well as the future.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-12-05 06:37:22

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INTERRUPTIONS. “An interaction need not be continuously in operation for the evolved microbiota to resume its performance after an interruption: they are singers that already know the song. Neither a composition-based ‘‘major transitions’’ nor a ‘‘levels of selection’’ approach will accommodate this model: songs are perfomed by—but do not comprise—their singers.” https://lnkd.in/dk3R9p6y View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-12-05 06:35:54

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INTERLINKED METABOLISMS. “Because there’s a song there are singers: because there are singers, there’s a song. It is even more tempting to think this way when there is no macrobial host, as in some biofilms or indeed, perhaps, the biosphere as a whole. Shared metabolisms are part of the fabric of Nature.” https://lnkd.in/dk3R9p6y View in LinkedIn
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THE NOW. “A pattern of waves will crawl across spacetime at the speed of light, eventually changing distant observers, whose perception of our present moment by means of their interception of this pattern, will vary radically depending upon their relative velocity.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn
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