Complexity Theory, Consciousness, and Everyday Life - Neil Theise, M.D. - ND3783
New Dimensions
The Limits of Consciousness
complexity theory teaches me to remind myself, where are my boundaries? What view am I choosing to look from? Is it just me in my little bounded self? Or is it the cellular level, in which case I'm part of the entire biomass of the planet? Who am I becomes a question of how am I looking at myself? Right, exactly. And for some, somehow, Neil, this is what gave me some optimism about staying connected and staying engaged in somehow in this whole experiment of human endeavor. We each can choose to be that errant ant. But we don't know like that idea of the flap of the butterfly swing. We don't know what impact that might make.
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