myceliumgirl's review
adventurous
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Once the mycelial thought is learned, it is impossible for it to not influence all of one's activities. Connections form easily and yet stay malleable enough to be revised as new information emerges. As the actions of this adaptive thinking process go on to affect the world, they are built upon by others, creating a feedback loop throughout a community. If sustained, these loops have the potential to build other systems, each with their own feedback loops, leading to an exponential increase in complexity and resilience in the meta-system. As these systems stack, integrate, and synchronize, they refine the meta-system's ability to learn from, create, design, evolve, and self-organize itself into the most appropriate emergent model that the meta-system's environment requires. In the theory of self-organized criticality, the mechanisms that lead to minor events are the same that lead to major ones. Thus, a forest never reaches a state of equilibrium, but constantly advances from one state to the next. So too can a group of humans that initially organizes around a single issue create a whole culture that is informed, competent, and clear about its values, leading toward focused designs for regeneration in the meta-culture."
This book was the start of my fungus deep dive. It rearranged everything about how I see the world.
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