Week 10 -- Life and Living Systems

• I know I’m a “living system” because…….
• Biophysics and Oriental Medicine

• I know I'm a living system because.............. A living system has been defined this way: "nonrandom accumulations of matter-energy in physical space-time organized into interacting, interrelated subsystems or components" . Now, I don't think that it is a requirement that this system exist in spacetime, because we do not understand our universe enough to make that restriction. There very well could be lifeforms that can exist perfectly well outside our dimension of space time or that exist across different dimensions of spacetimes. But I like the rest of the definitions of living systems. I know that my system utilizes energy of various types, information from both the internal and external environments, and matter. My system also organizes these components into an organized and adaptive system. Thus I am a living system.
• Have we been able to find Qi yet? No. We haven't been able to explain how we or this universe came into existence either. And yet, here we are. If we were to say that because we cannot test for it means that it doesn't exist then we should accept that we don't exist either. This may be harder to prove than the existence of a force of energy that isn't picked up by the instruments of technology that we currently have. With a greater understanding of the energy fields that give rise to consciousness and the more physical substances we shall come to understand scientifically what has been known for thousands of years by the masters of great sensitivity and wisdom and insight into the secrets of the universe
  
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