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Prominent biologist Carl Woese touches on this implication when he describes organisms as “resilient patterns in a turbulent flow—patterns in an energy flow.” He adds, “It is becoming increasingly clear that to understand living systems in any deep sense, we must come to see them not materialistically, as machines, but as stable, complex, dynamic organization.”
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The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
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