Andrew Côté

This is a dangerously wrong statement Exponential processes are extremely common in our lives and experience It's just that there is no unbounded exponential process in nature So every exponential process becomes a phase in a sigmoidal growth curve

Biology is not just a Rube Goldberg Turing Machine but so much more, because when you look at what the molecules really are and how they push - why it's electric forces, and the chemical bonds are electronic too, and all these molecules and atoms are bathed in a common sea of electromagnetism that does not just travel fast rather it defines the speed of causality. And that these chemical bonds and molecular rotations all vibrate, DC electric fields wiggling into AC fields, and these AC fields travel as photons and land as phonons heating things up, making and breaking bonds, changing their shape, we feel this as heat, as light, and our bodies are made of towering stacks of electronic bonds each with its own energy level that are so closely spaced as to be continuous, and all these bonds and molecules vibrating and emitting and absorbing constitute a constant exchange of field energy and information with the towering stacks of electronic bonds in our surroundings, like tall ships with endless stories of cannons exchanging electromagnetic broadsides in both directions at once, at all times, along minimal paths in spacetime, at quantized energy levels. And you'd rightly think this is all wondrously mad and fantastical and surely just a mathematical model and I say no - this is sight, this is what it means to see, both literally and figuratively, to know that your experience is constituted by electromagnetic field interaction in its entirety, and these same fields are what planets, stars, everything is made of, and when you open two quarter sized holes in your head and let it all in this is what you *see*. The world as constructed in your mind, the surface of your retina coupled to the surface of the wall, a cloud, a distant galaxy by a field wiggling both ends at once. Now you consider all these things and what energy means, and how it flows through the body and the air and environment as a currency animating dead matter into life, that it comes from the Sun, ultimately, crushing protons into Helium and bathing the solar system in it's electromagnetic field of life giving energy, passed as photons and minted by chloroplasts into sugar, and if you really start to visualize and understand the true nature of what you're in, what the constituent building blocks of everyday experience actually turn out to be in the details, then you know for certain that humans are like children playing on the shore of an ocean so deep and wide as to make our greatest imagination and dreams seem shallow. And that the laws of nature are as much for our discovery as we are to be a discovery of the universe getting to know itself.