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Sixteen Patterns: What is Life? Life builds from the bottom up Life assembles itself into chains Life needs a inside and an outside Life uses a few themes to generate many variations Life organizes with information Life encourages variety by reshuffling information Life creates with mistakes Life occurs in water Life runs on sugar Life works in cycles Life recycles everything it uses Life maintains itself by turnover Life tends to optimize rather than maximize Life is opportunistic Life competes within a cooperative framework Life is interconnected and interdependent From The Way Life Works, Mahlon Hoaglund and Bert Dodson, 1998As we complete each unit this year, indicate which of these characteristics are demonstrated. (i.e. Ecology certainly shows the last 7 patterns) |
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