¶ Metabolic Flow (2)
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Metabolic Flow:
“Himalayas that is going to bring rain that is going to get mixed up with my soup next month. If I put tracers on all the food that is going to be me a month from today, I would have to have all kinds of isotopes all over the Universe. And gradually you would see these isotopes getting closer together and finally they meet. And then they look like me for a few days. And some of them get out; some of them get out in a few weeks, and some in a few years, but they get tied up in a different longevity of knots locally. And that is called me. But I am quite confident that I am not the vegetables that I eat, nor the water that I drink. The only thing that counts about me at all is the pattern integrity.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #5, pp. 171-172, 9 Jul’62
