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activity at the interior level of motor primacy. And “Since there can be a practically
unlimited number of possible states within this network, the possible behaviors of
the organism can also be practically unlimited.”
5
Echoes of the aforementioned mirroring effect is one way to intimate the biospheric code inherent to every ecosystem
in relation to every other system.
In a similar manner, scanning electron microscopy targeting the feather of a
goose that has been prepared with a combination of circumstantial alloys, “conductive metal coatings,” a “vacuum chamber,” a “low pressure atmosphere of argon
gas,” etc.,
6
“allows the otherwise chaotic electrons to be controlled”
7
while yielding
the image as well as the reality of varying bacterial and quill mite loads in any given
feather. One feather might contain thousands of such mites (of which some 320 species have thus far been identified) and millions of bacteria.
8
Follow the bacteria.
If we liken flocks and parasitic loads to populations in general, noting the Others,
as outlined in the myriad contingencies and circumstances that lend to life a certain
natural economy, from the lone individual to its species and heaps of sand that, by
analogy, constitute discrete populations, we might also adduce from the Middle
Ages the nature of the monk inhabiting a Cistercian grange, or farming complex.
That individual, and his/her brethren, according to Saint Benedict “should be occupied at certain times in manual labor, and again in fixed hours in sacred reading…”
9
Both sets of activities exert a force that is felt in the universe, however modest the
nudge of electrons and their excitement may be. By such similes and similitudes, we
read into our own histories and recognize that thermodynamics plays as much a role
in the natural depictions we foster, originate, reproduce, and express among ourselves, as the metaphysical questions that perpetually tease philosophers, farmers,
poets, and, unquestionably, all other species inhabiting the ontological orbit that we
know to be life.
5 See The Tree Of Knowledge – The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, by Humberto
R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, Foreword by J. Z. Young, New Science Library, Shambhala,
Boston & London, 1987, p. 159.
6 See Journeys In Microspace – The Art Of The Scanning Electron Microscope, by Dee Breger,
Columbia University Press, New York, 1995, p. 16.
7 ibid.
8 See “These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills,” by John Barrat, Smithsonian
Insider 30 April 2014, https://insider.si.edu/2014/04/bird-mites-make-quiver-quills/, Accessed
February 14, 2019.
9 Architecture Of Silence – Cistercian Abbeys Of France, Photographs by David Heald, Text by
Terryl N. Kinder, Harry Abrams Publishers, New York, 2000, p. 20.
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activity at the interior level of motor primacy. And “Since there can be a practically
unlimited number of possible states within this network, the possible behaviors of
the organism can also be practically unlimited.”
5
Echoes of the aforementioned mirroring effect is one way to intimate the biospheric code inherent to every ecosystem
in relation to every other system.
In a similar manner, scanning electron microscopy targeting the feather of a
goose that has been prepared with a combination of circumstantial alloys, “conductive metal coatings,” a “vacuum chamber,” a “low pressure atmosphere of argon
gas,” etc.,
6
“allows the otherwise chaotic electrons to be controlled”
7
while yielding
the image as well as the reality of varying bacterial and quill mite loads in any given
feather. One feather might contain thousands of such mites (of which some 320 species have thus far been identified) and millions of bacteria.
8
Follow the bacteria.
If we liken flocks and parasitic loads to populations in general, noting the Others,
as outlined in the myriad contingencies and circumstances that lend to life a certain
natural economy, from the lone individual to its species and heaps of sand that, by
analogy, constitute discrete populations, we might also adduce from the Middle
Ages the nature of the monk inhabiting a Cistercian grange, or farming complex.
That individual, and his/her brethren, according to Saint Benedict “should be occupied at certain times in manual labor, and again in fixed hours in sacred reading…”
9
Both sets of activities exert a force that is felt in the universe, however modest the
nudge of electrons and their excitement may be. By such similes and similitudes, we
read into our own histories and recognize that thermodynamics plays as much a role
in the natural depictions we foster, originate, reproduce, and express among ourselves, as the metaphysical questions that perpetually tease philosophers, farmers,
poets, and, unquestionably, all other species inhabiting the ontological orbit that we
know to be life.
5 See The Tree Of Knowledge – The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, by Humberto
R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, Foreword by J. Z. Young, New Science Library, Shambhala,
Boston & London, 1987, p. 159.
6 See Journeys In Microspace – The Art Of The Scanning Electron Microscope, by Dee Breger,
Columbia University Press, New York, 1995, p. 16.
7 ibid.
8 See “These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills,” by John Barrat, Smithsonian
Insider 30 April 2014, https://insider.si.edu/2014/04/bird-mites-make-quiver-quills/, Accessed
February 14, 2019.
9 Architecture Of Silence – Cistercian Abbeys Of France, Photographs by David Heald, Text by
Terryl N. Kinder, Harry Abrams Publishers, New York, 2000, p. 20.
11 Heavy and Light Contingencies of Consciousness