Self-organized systems, including ourselves, operate at their core exactly as Anthony Trewavas described plants as operating: “There is no unique separate response to each signal in this complex [of informational inflows] but merely a response issued from an integration of all environmental and internal information.”29 In other words, the organism takes in all the incoming data simultaneously as it occurs and integrates it as one coherent whole then crafts a response, exactly as a juggler does with his balls. Editor:
