Wow. You have a written a post as worthy and complex as the book that inspired it!

First let me say – garden hose! – I have now also revamped my entire idea of my circulatory system as well!

And digesting or chewing a book or science like a steak. Yes!

“The non-linear way in which everything is not only connected, but somehow IS everything else.” This is fascinating. The whole post is fascinating. (I was enchanted by the enzymes and the gigantic diagram of the pathways for glucose metabolism too) but this sentence sums up best for me what really “hooked” me into comprehending what you wrote.

I think in kinesthetically and in pictures, not words. And when I learn something scientific, I learn it far better if I use metaphors – mine or others’- however inaccurate they might be.(This touches on some other things you likely already know about, like memory and learning, and why the Church used the stations of the cross to help parishioners remember the Biblical stories)

I agree with Michelle – it is a brilliant book to dispel the reductionist approach overall, and built right into it is the information on why it will be so very hard to do so.

And I agree with AJ – “and we think our finite minds can comprehend it all” – we humans have such hubris.

I am glad you are taking your time reading Whole, and I would love to hear more of your thoughts. I read it through quickly and am now re-reading it slowly, like chewing a steak. 🙂

xoxo

Nicole