Body Systems

Exploration through the direct experience of our own body systems, tissues and cells...

http://www.nsdpoker.com/2011/02/human_body/ 

Reflection on moving with the idea of cells:

• feeling grounded
• quite heavy whilst at the same time quite light
• relation towards sponge 'a lot of cells create a spongy surface'
• cells create my body - MOVING BODY!

Quote from Lewis Thomas's `The Lives of a Cell' (Viking Press, 1974) – “I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is a no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell.” Yes, the cell is truly amazing – amazing in its complexity, yet fundamental to all forms of life including the human organism.

 http://www.biology.buffalo.edu/courses/bio531/lecture7.html