week 6: living vs. non-living systems

I'm one of those people who bump into a chair and apologize. Not to say that I would call a chair living, but sometimes I think of inanimate objects as things with feelings. Although those feelings may just be energetic stuff absorbed from their environment. The discussion about living "systems" has been very interesting to me. I like the idea that something that we don't think of as cognizant is cognizant because it interacts with its environment in order to sustain its "self." I enjoy having my horizons broadened and being able to fit a few more things into the living category.