Earth is the only known planet that offers life: a natural system of energy and matter making different forms, structures and patterns that respond to the changing environmental conditions. As Rupert Sheldrake argues in A New Science of Life: ‘In the most general terms, form and energy bear an inverse relationship to each other: energy is the principle of change, but a form or structure can only exist as long as it has a certain stability and resistance to change.’

While the possibilities for pattern and form that matter or elementary substances propose are infinite, life is a struggle of energies over choosing the right network to move through matter. So the life span of an individual organ or organism is determined by its response and engagement to the natural system. In this context, function or activity should select the right network to win its way through time and space. Unless energy and matter loose touch with each other and death occurs. In this case if the dead body is surrounded by living energies its substances unfold themselves in the bio-system and return to the cycle of life.

In this system, birth and death follow the same value since no single organism, as part of a greater generation, is complete by itself. Each body, in each generation, contributes to form, function and the surrounding and surpasses its current values. The beauty of this system is that the formation of each modality in the process of growth is a constant response and adaptation to the environment. While distinguishing values from non-values consciously and unconsciously influences its mode of existence. If a breathing form fails to adapt its codes through time, its modality disappears from the face of our biosphere. This also applies to the cultures around the world as similar evolution has happened in the context of all dependent texts: genetic codes and human languages.

Herein being human is the same general coded plan as of all mammals with one exceptional quality that appears to be more degree of free will than other species. That has led mankind to habituate nature by analytical observations and therefore tooling in order to have a longer and happier life in a safer and more nutritious surrounding than that of our ancestors.

Now, having all the great advances in tooling, technology and knowledge of our environment, we know that we can add nothing foreign to the thinking. What we think and create emerges from our genetic text, language and the environment we put ourselves into. We have the opportunity to realize that our ideas and actions have their values beyond the moral judgments of institutes and constitutions and far beyond our momentary desires and pleasures since they are not just at the place of presence and that they can be made to grow and evolve through space and time.

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