ABSTRACT

Because of our limited perceptions of scale, we often separate the oceans from the land that surrounds them. However, despite our worldview, the universe is a single, all-inclusive relationship that consists of an ever-expanding web of biophysical feedback loops, each of which is perpetually dynamic, novel, and self-reinforcing. Each feedback loop is a conduit whereby energy is moved from one place, one dimension, and one scale to another. Thus, the forests and seas of the world are entrained in the continual exchange of energy within this web because the existence of everything in the universe is an expression of its reciprocity with everything else.