A spider’s book lungs pack an immense surface for exchange into a tiny space. Across lungs, brains, cells and information, the same principle recurs: internal structure multiplies what a finite system can do.
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Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.
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miracle of persistence
Life is not astonishing simply because it exists. It is astonishing because, against every available opportunity to fall apart, it keeps holding together and this resilience is the kernel core of its persistence.
