From the simplest grids made up entirely of squares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patterns of growth, the book itself is a work of art.
One theory that could be explored is that the nature of dark energy, which scientists think is causing the accelerated expansion of the universe, is different fromthesimplest human-calculated models.
For Deacon, the answer has to lie in a closer look at self-organizing processes and how the origins of life and consciousness are rooted in the constraints that bind and shape these processes as they build fromthesimplest self-assembly of molecules up to the emergence of the first life forms.