At the atomic level there’s no atom in your body that you didn’t eat, drink, or breathe from the planet. So we usually think of ourselves as living beings that sit on the planet, but it’s just as reasonable to say—complementarity—that we are the planet that has self-organized its material into beings that think of themselves as separate.

The Inherent Compassion of a Self-Organizing Universe (2019)

Portrait of Neil Theise

Neil Theise

Liver Pathologist and Complexity Theorist

Neil Theise, MD is a diagnostic liver pathologist, adult stem cell researcher, and complexity theorist in New York City, where he is Professor of Pathology and of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and attending physician at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. He received his BA in Oriental Studies (Judaica/Hebraica) and a BAS in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania before earning his MD from Columbia University.

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