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Brief Introduction Organic (carbon-based) life on Earth is understood inclusionally as an embodied water flow. Evolution correspondingly involves a process of natural inclusion: the co-creative, fluid dynamic transformation of all through all in receptive spatial context. Notions of competition and co-operation, and both individual and group selection are recognised to be artefacts of prescriptive definition - the assumption that organisms and genes can be abstracted as discrete entities out of their dynamic spatial context. Ecologically, content is contextual: the inhabitant is a dynamic inclusion of the habitat, not an exception from it, as objective rationality would have us make believe. Content simultaneously forms from and gives expression to the receptive spatial pool that it fluid dynamically includes and is included in; the inhabitant transforms the habitat and vice versa as inseparable but distinguishable (discernible) aspects of one including the other, nested over all scales from microcosm to cosmos. Inclusional flow entails the local-non-local logic of ‘somewhere as a dynamic inclusion of everywhere’, not solely the local logic of discrete, opposing objects. Natural biological diversity is hence understood in terms of the co-evolving informational content and spatial context of living systems as dynamically bounded flow forms nested from subcellular to global scales of organisation. Variability in the deformability, permeability and contiguity of living system boundaries is influenced and sustained genetically to yield a heterogeneous pool in which distinctive dynamic relational forms continually and autocatalytically open up and close down opportunities for one another. In reality, there can be no separation of ‘Nature’ from ‘Nurture’ because ‘organisms’ and ‘environment’ inescapably include each other. In this light, there is a need for radical re-interpretation of many of the most widely accepted but simplistic models of biological structure and function. These models demean rather than enrich our understanding of life in all its depth, complexity and diversity. Contacts
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