Seeds do not produce trees. They organize the process of creating trees.
Living systems are not made of things; they do not have “thingness”. Rather, things themselves are the results of living system, arising out of a fundamental reality of relationships.
A living system thus has the capacity to create itself. Herein lies a fundamental distinction between living systems and machines: living systems are self-made while machines are made by others.
书摘: A fifth discipline fieldbook
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