Some interesting ideas with which I do not precisely agree…

“Organizations are literally alive and can be classified and known and analyzed taxonomically and biologically like any other biological organism. One of the reasons that human life and death is such a weird, mysterious phenomenon is that we are organizations of a couple trillion animals, and we die when our organization dies, even when our individual cells can chug along happily in perpetuity. Also, our cells are #^@&ing brilliant. As an organization made of them, we are … decidedly less so. Any next-level organizations made from us are demonstrably moronic at best – sentient, but not necessarily sapient, if you get the distinction – as predicted by complexity theory. But they are worth study because they are an existential threat – either predators or parasites or vaguely symbiotic. Their mutation rates are extremely unpredictable, so they can change from one category to another without warning.”

— Laszlo Xalieri