[This is Part 13 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 12 here .] We can now turn to discussing how all of the preceding units interact, what those patterns of interactions imply about our metacrisis, and how we may use these features/behaviors to our advantage as metarevolutionaries. Stated otherwise, we have just taken the viewpoint of the “extremely simple”. We were, as Leibniz said, seeking the “elements of the elements”
[This is Part 12 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 11 here .] d. Calories Calories - in general A calorie is a unit of heat energy, interchangeable with all other forms of physical energy. H.T. Odum & Elisabeth Odum: “Since all kinds of energy can be converted into heat, we can measure the energy flowing into and out of a system in units of heat energy such as the Calorie… All processes require energy in some form—light
[This is Part 11 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 10 here .] As Value and Action are always mingling inseparably, anything which can be considered a basic unit of our reality must in some sense reflect their ongoing dramatic union. That said, some of the units we will discuss tend to emphasize certain domains of that reality—whose absolute first principle, we know, is the Good. And there are other units which could have