ABSTRACT
Diversity is the primary characteristic of life which permits evolution and it is the diversity in lifeforms which appears to us as complexity or perhaps even as chaos. Yet it is amazing, with all the interwoven complexity which exists in ecosystems and within the biochemistry of individual organisms within these ecosystems, that humans have evolved to think predominantly in a linear mode. For the vast majority of people, mere mention of “an n dimensional network of biochemical pathways” elicits a blank expression. The effect of the passage of time in our lives and, for the greater part of our evolution, the effects of action and linear time related consequence has lead us to think predominantly in linear terms. Throughout most of our existence, linear thinking has served us well. Over the past several centuries, however, a change has been taking place as, out of necessity, we abandon old concepts and recognize the multidimensional interconnections of our universe.
