I was trained as a physicist and spent twenty years doing research in theoretical high-energy physics. I left physics in the mid-eighties and turned towards the life sciences, where a new conception of life has recently emerged. It involves a profound shift in perspective from seeing the world as a machine composed of elementary building blocks to understanding that it is a network of inseparable patterns of relationships.
Over the last few decades, I have developed a synthesis of this new understanding, a conceptual framework that integrates four dimensions of life: the biological, the cognitive, ...
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