The biology we no longer pursue

We no longer study biology. We consider the information content of life and, like diligent librarians, we categorize and locate life in space and time. In understanding life we only add information to the world that becomes the interface point with that life for the majority of us. We ignore the life around us.

Why doesn't biology pursue this?

Nature was ground zero. It's battered remains remind us of the viral relationship neural reflexivity has upon the world. It steps out of the rhythm of life by removing itself from its co-present relationship to it. In doing so it achieves the primal relationship a virus has with the world. The virus seeks opportunities. Like a genetic pirate it seizes the genes of other forms of life in order to have it produce copies of itself. How simple is that? That's a fundamental relationship between a life lived on the outside of a world considered as undifferentiated soup once it had achieved a membrane to separate itself. On the outside. In becoming an 'other' one achieves the fundamental cleavage from which unitary consciousness springs. Difference is the datum. From that everything grows. We achieve scale.