If there's no energy flowing through your body, you're dead. Right? And if the energy doesn't flow efficiently, right, and smoothly through you as an organism , then life feels hard. Like you you're not at your best. You feel tired. Uh and and you feel likeyou know, maybe it's not worth it. You know, when you're sick and your immune system is like draining all all your
uh much larger uh almost Cosmic organism up until then poetry had been a vehicle for the expression of just abouteverything I think it's one of the original human languages it does not begin with text certainly it doesn't
Now, let me just enumerate some of those properties and their implications. Organisms seem to have a sort of inner motive power.They seem to be self-propelled, something that goes right back to Aristotle wondering about that.
And you see them in the middle here of the cleaning cycle and someone back off about 20 or 30 meters who is recording the data organisms and do censuses.
So this graph shows different survival curves for different organisms , including human cells and some other examples of very sensitive organisms to radiation. And these are different types of radiation.X-rays, it's ionizing radiation, very high energy.
We've all heard of divergent evolution. Organisms speciate over time, and we end up with a planet that's full of all kinds of different things.But there's also convergent evolution.
It isn't concerned with theory. Organisms are always using whatever a bits are lying around as material for new functionsand features. It's sort of a blind, trial-and-error search process.
That leads to another system rule of adaptable systems, which is that the most adaptable organisms learn from success.We're hearing a lot of buzz these days in management literature and organizational literature about how important it is to learn from failure, and isn't it great to learn from failure,
patent over plain paper copying when that first came out that would be a powerful tool organisms uh there are two problem two difficult things to solve there one of
and study what the chemistry's and so on so I just wanted to give you this one example to show that these super organisms they have the division of labor between the reproductive and the non reproductive the non reproductivehave to communicate to partition the tasks they have to do you saw there was
single organism instead of each individual as a -- Hugh Raffles: Yeah, what the -- so, thinking about ants, say, as super organisms that -- so rather than working as individuals but collectively, they produce some kind of intelligence collectively rather than individually, yeah. And a lot of people do think -- do think thisis the case that some of these animals really operate on quite simple algorithms individually but when you put them together, then there's
are fundamentally going to get impacted by either not solving these problems or solving them. And, you know, I mean, corporations are self-interested organisms , right? So when they start to make that connection -- even when there's no short-term profit -- and it's going to be tough.And, you know, Wall Street makes it tougher, because there's sort of a short-term fixation on profit -- makes it far harder to look out into the distance and see the time when those
like psychedelics, that you would to a complex human mind? the organism , within the collective, you can replace and substitute engineered systems with naturally evolved systems.
like psychedelics, that you would to a complex human mind? primitive organism you got from the bottom of a pond somewhere." And I'll say, "Well, what do you think the genome would look like?" And they say, "Well, the genome would
So the idea that all organisms have to live in these incredibly complex dynamic environments. an organism , which is quite particular to that organism because of its own particular situation and the necessary interactions it
I told them that this is a body part and I told them that I felt that I was a cyborg, a union between cybernetics and an organism and in the end they allowed me to appear in the passport of 2004 with this first prototype and this allows me to travel freely around the world because airports don't usually like technology. So if you are technology, they don't like you very
supernatural organism like the zombie.
total organism , which is life on the planet as we know it.
one organism laughing and enjoying it.
united that they develop collectively traits which resemble traits of a true normal organism now there are not many examples in the living world which we can really call super organisms but we find plenty of them in the so called youth social insects are truly social
which keeps it super organism alive they're workers now in order that such a super organism works we need and that the division of labor system works because also among these non reproductive individuals there is a division of labor you need a
or multi-level selection theory now as only one individual in this gigantic super organism which her produces and this is a queen huge in the widow reproductive unit this Queen lives 15 to 20 years in the maximum it mates only
whole colony has a mind. And do you think some kind of different dimension like you mentioned that ants actually the whole organism is a single organism instead of each individual as a -- Hugh Raffles: Yeah, what the -- so, thinking about ants, say, as super organisms that -- so rather than working as individuals but collectively, they produce some kind of intelligence collectively rather than individually, yeah. And a lot of people do think -- do think this
Other organisms that seemingly took inspiration from us humans.
So organisms that did the right thing often enough-- they tended to survive.
It's an open-ended and seemingly boundless possibility space. Living organisms , I suppose, their most characteristic feature, at least the one that intrigues me, they achieve seemingly impossible states. That is, they achieve states of matter that could not arise in any other way from non-living systems.
Biological organisms change shape even if they don't want to.
And organisms evolve towards the peaks, which are adapted to their environment, or they die out.
of organisms , the mechanism behind it, natural selection.
All organisms move in order to survive.
living organisms in Europe and Incredibly this still blows my mind um
abundant organisms on the planet this is almost certainly one of the most successful bacteria in the world and
And this is just a translation of these data. So organisms that are very sensitive to radiation, there's a lot of carbonyl groups formed after radiation. And the ones that are resistant, the proteins remain active because they're not oxidated.
are organisms , not algorithms.
things we can do. The organisms , folks, focus on the specifics, not on the generalities. I'll get into that a little more.
as organisms , moving around and particular words have affinities to each other based on their presence in an original text. So,
If I'm an organism and I'm burning up energy all day long, that energy is radiated out in the form of body heat.
Yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, in fact, so we need to distinguish between just the physical-- the mechanism itself of something that doesn't require positing any smartness on behalf of the organism , and what's truly intentional, thereby the type of behaviors that are sophisticated enough, regardless of their time scale, regardless of the speed in which those behaviors unfold, and what sort of justification we have to say, hey, this is truly intelligent behavior.
So the idea that all organisms have to live in these incredibly complex dynamic environments. So this organism might not exhibit this competency.
That's a symbiotic organism that could now travel far and wide from the water.
when an organism , a tree or a dinosaur or whatever, dies.
We call it an organism that gets the messages of the elders to the world.
that the human organism and human society evolved was under conditions of relative equilibrium, in terms of population, but also in terms of the relationship
It pertains of an organism to exist.
No matter the organism , the molecule is the same.
This is an organism that roots in the bottom, so it didn't migrate.
within a suspected organism , and all at the same scale that matters to microorganisms, which is really very tiny.
So this organism is an animal.
So a special purpose organism -- and guess what?
understanding the whole organism .