Guide to life for all
2006/04/01 Roa Zubia, Guillermo - Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria
From the point of view of the science of complexity, we can understand life as a network. My book will be a guide that will help the reader get into this network.
As it is so broad, I will not be able to explain everything alone. Therefore, somehow I wanted to make a guide to be able to enter it, and I will mark some entries and give some resources so that each person can expand the information according to their interest. But it is impossible to explain everything.
The chapters are divided into three major themes and I have assigned a color to each theme. The first theme, blue, analyzes the network of life in general. There, in that generality, I want to reflect the ways of functioning of living beings.
I have given orange color to another central theme and it is the node of man. The network consists of several nodes that are joined together. And we, the human being, are a node within the network of life.
The third central theme is to analyze whether or not the equilibrium state of life is in danger. I have given her green color. In this sense, I will try to inform you to have an opinion.
Yes. I know that you cannot be totally objective, but I want to try to reflect the different opinions that exist as I have come to know the current knowledge of science. In the end it will be a step prior to reflection, explaining to the maximum and completing each one his opinion.
I have always had a tendency to use colors, to understand things seeing more easily, and in this book I have interspersed the chapters of a central theme with those of other subjects. Just by seeing it, the colors help me to know what topic the title of a chapter corresponds to.
But those colors are not right. Yes, I have given the environmental theme green, but I have put blue and orange because they were quite good.
In my opinion, if we want to know the environment, first it is also important to know ourselves; or if we want to change something, we first want to change. If we understand how we are, we may better understand our importance within the network of life and what changes we can make.
On the other hand, some of the issues I propose here have to do directly with the current state of the Earth and many other things. That is not a matter of opinion, it is rather objective. We have a remarkable influence on the environment, we are transforming it. Without any other connotation, but that is so.
Things are changing a lot. The networked structure is gaining enormous prominence in all areas of human activity. We surf every day on the internet and somehow we got used to moving a little inside a network structure. And it must be said that with science society is changing. And the network structure, in addition to science, is being imposed in many other areas.
