"And since our world's systems are composed of individual organisms, they have the capacity to change. We creatures adapt, our genes evolve, we can learn from experience. A system is ever-changing because its parts - the trees and fungi and people - are constantly responding to one another and to the environment. Our success in coevolution - our success as a productive society - is only as good as the strength of the bonds with other individuals and species."
"And the forest keeps reminding me of lessons essential to business and life: resilience comes from networks, strength from cooperation, longevity from balance. The wild teaches what boardrooms and MBAs rarely can. In a Noema essay, the forest ecologist and author Suzanne Simard explores how trees offer us a different kind of wisdom: they are part of a living intelligence, bound together through underground networks of fungi that share carbon, nutrients, and even resilience across species."
Forests demonstrate that resilience arises from interconnected networks, cooperation yields strength, and balance supports longevity. Trees and fungi form living intelligence through underground mycorrhizal networks that share carbon, nutrients, and resilience across species. Ecosystems resemble human societies because relationships determine system resilience; parts constantly respond and adapt to one another and the environment. Coevolution and strong bonds among individuals and species produce adaptive behaviors that support survival, growth, and thriving. Artificial systems can become trapped in endless loops, repeating actions indefinitely, while conscious organisms typically avoid such perpetual repetition through experience and adaptation.
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