Peter Mitchell was a British biochemist who transformed biology by introducing the chemiosmotic theory — the idea that cells generate energy through electrochemical gradients across membranes, overturning the then-dominant mechanistic view of metabolism. “I cannot consider the organism without its environment… from a formal point of view the two may be regarded as equivalent phases […]
Our all too human instinct and reflex is for the construction of system boundaries, gradients of definition, of adaptive frameworks of differentiation and models as metrics of distance and duration. In what ways is the drawing of lines, grids, matrices, referential networks and complex symmetries upon the shifting sands of experience as memory actually always […]
That boundary between the world as it is and as any of us would rather have it be is a stark cartography of relentless dissatisfaction. The expanding volume and referential space between what is and what might be is that labyrinthine, glorious confusion around which this, our own selves, orbit and upon which the essential […]
The greatest human tragedies predominantly occur because of our differences…
Daedelus Kite 