tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093594144580022909.post3822390367580185025..comments2023-04-11T01:32:10.798-07:00Comments on from outside the box: On LifeCody Bornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11594694883560144113noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093594144580022909.post-89661195834547150852015-03-15T22:37:06.725-07:002015-03-15T22:37:06.725-07:00Yes! And the entire history of earth is analogous ...Yes! And the entire history of earth is analogous to the first few seconds of a being's life.Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344560511828494089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093594144580022909.post-24881767953669166552015-03-15T22:36:37.245-07:002015-03-15T22:36:37.245-07:00Yes! And the entire history of earth is analogous ...Yes! And the entire history of earth is analogous to the first few seconds of a being's life.Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344560511828494089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093594144580022909.post-8878752730728715802015-03-15T15:40:48.673-07:002015-03-15T15:40:48.673-07:00A city is absolutely a living thing, but so is you...A city is absolutely a living thing, but so is your spleen. The more interesting question is: is a city an *organism*. (Your spleen isn't, but you are.)<br /><br />Consider: most ants are sterile. How is this possible? Wouldn't evolution select against sterility? The answer is: ants are not organisms, ant *colonies* are organisms, which happen to be made of parts (ants) that are not physically connected to each other. So a city is (arguably) an organism like an ant colony. But it's a little less clear in the case of a city because cities don't have their own genomes.<br /><br />It's an interesting question.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.com