Life's Unique Patterns

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Updating our Cosmology Updates our Theology Life’s Unique Patterns

The Way Life Works

16 Things You should know about life

We need to see life and creation as a whole. Although every living thing is unique, there is 
a pattern throughout creation. Our recent discoveries concerning DNA confirm this. 
The DNA structure is immensely complex, with countless millions of components, 
yet, each is merely a pattern of 4 parts.  

Somehow, in this simple concept there are billions of patterns and these form the 
building blocks of evolutionary creation.

So, to look at life, creation and its patterns we need to look , not only at uniqueness but 
also at the underlying unity. 

This is reflected in the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads of Hinduism.

‘ The one who merely recognises the diversity but fails to see the underlying 
unity, wanders on from death to death’   

Later on , in the same passage is the opposite. 

‘ The one who merely recognises the underlying unity but fails to see the diversity, 
they too, wander on from death to death’

So in the spirit of this let us remember 16 essential unifying patterns of all life. These are adapted from a book  by + Mahlon B. Hoagland, + Bert Dodson with the title The Way Things Work,

1.                  Life builds from the bottom up.

2.                  Life assembles itself in chains. ( e.g. DNA)

3.                  Life needs an inside and an outside. ( look after both)

4.                  Life uses a few themes to generate many variations

5.                  Life organises with information

6.                  Life encourages variety by reshuffling information.

7.                  Life creates with mistakes. ( We all make them! )

8.                  Life occurs in water.

9.                  Life runs on sugar.  (Remember that next time you want a biscuit)

10.             Life works in cycles.

11.             Life recycles everything it uses.

12.             Life maintains itself by turnover.

13.             Life tends to optimise rather than maximise 
( its not the biggest or strongest that survive, but those that adapt to change 
:- Darwin)

14.             Life is opportunistic. ( see 13)

15.             Life competes within a cooperative framework.

16.             Life is interconnected and interdependent.

Happy reflecting!