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Letter: Nature will have occupied all the levels of reality

Published 11 September 2024

From John Davidson, Knighton on Teme, Worcestershire, UK

It is fascinating to consider the possibilities of quantum biology, but surely its existence would be no great surprise. It seems to me that nature is already functioning happily at all the “levels” we humans think we can discern, and many more we have yet to identify (10 August, p 18).

Surely molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, the quantum world and the microdynamics of space, etc., are all aspects of one natural system, functioning as a whole, and the various so-called levels are all human constructs – a useful analysis or a window onto something we don’t fully understand, part of a whole we have yet to comprehend?

Issue no. 3508 published 14 September 2024

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