You know the feeling. You eat a doughnut and it felt oh so deliciously wonderful in the moment yet within a few short minutes the pleasure is reversed. You feel gross. Your body tells you. You didn't need to analyze anything, you sensed what happened to you when you metabolized the doughnut, when its sugar, [...]
Metabolic ontology begins from a simple observation: nothing lives by remaining what it is. Existence persists only through continual transformation, through the conversion of decay into the conditions for further life. Entropy is not disorder but the movement that makes order temporary. Biology calls this metabolism: the exchange of matter, energy, and information that maintains [...]
Coconut Thinking 