treeness

Updated: May 20, 2025

Go back to your books." "And as de Roquefort says, 'To sit on a cheese and eat whey is the destiny of fools." "See here, young man," said the beard, ignoring his colleague, "treeness is a life process displaying the aspiration of matter toward hierarchy, order, and structure. It finds analogues and even homologues in life systems everywhere."

Robert A. Harris - Stories from the Old Attic