The systems perspective offers important insights into the nature of reality that upend many assumptions forming the basis of the predominant worldview. It tells us that the relationship between things is frequently more important than the things themselves. It emphasizes that everything in the natural world is dynamic rather than static and that biological phenomena can't be predicted with precision: instead of fixed laws, we therefore need to search for the underlying organizing principles of nature. These principles, it reveals, occur across widely different domains, from heart rhythms to
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