Common Threads
page 72-73 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything
So if there are all of these billions of decisions being made, why would there be any species at all? Why wouldn’t every single creature be vastly different from every other single creature?
Every creature is vastly different from every other single creature, depending on the distance or granularity of your perspective. I am different from all other humans, yet there are those who will lump me in with all other middle-aged American white women as one entity for any of a variety of reasons, including personal prejudice, marketing demographics and political exploitation.
Why are beehives similar? Why is each Portuguese Man of War similar? Why are human families similar? cities? countries? solar systems? galaxies? Possibly we are back to that thought that there is this desire to follow others and group coupled with the desire to create something new and be followed; independence and freedom of thought pushing against the desire for acceptance; the wish for adventure and discovery grappling with the wish for Everything to stay secure and familiar. Grouping and ungrouping; gravity and entropy.
