What Science Teaches
Everything alive forms nothing into something by creating an identity for itself. This is the dynamic of self-organization—life’s capacity to create order from chaos, to create growth and potential where there was none. The process of self-organizing is in the term itself: There is a self that gets organized.
Living systems are self-organizing; they exchange information with their environment and use that information to adapt to changed conditions. Information is filtered through their identity, determining what’s relevant and what’s not. All of life possesses the essential freedom to decide what to pay attention to and how to respond to what they just noticed.
Without the filter of identity, there can be no sense making ...
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