Theory of living systems
Web of Life
Natural law
Sustainability
New ecological approach
Material world is a inseparable world of relationships/networks
Universe is living self regulating system
Human body & Mind = living cognitive system
Evolution: cooperative dance, with constant innovation & creativity
Network is a living pattern of relationships
Interdisciplinairy efforts of scientists
Shift of perspectives (from parts to the whole) thinking in
Mapping
“Nothing in the universe can stand by itself – no thing, no fact, no being, no event – and for this reason it is absurd to single anything out as the ideal to be grasped. For what is singled out exists only in relation to its own opposite, since what is defined by what is not, is defined by what is, pleasure is defined by pain, life defined by death and motion defined by stillness. Obviously, the mind can form no idea of what to be, without the contrast of ” not be”, since the idea of non-being are abstractions from such simple experiences as there is a penny in the right hand and no penny in the left.”
From The Way of Zen by Alan Watts