http://organelle.org/cBird/bLamb.html

“I often imagine the petri dishes and animal cages of laboratories as billions of island-universes, where evolution is happening at entirely different velocities from those we might suspect in our theories. The other strange thing about those island universes is this: I’m not sure they were meant to evolve in isolation, in a single media, with no transport to other organisms or relations. I mean, what happens when evolution is forced to occur in a mechanically flat terrain, comprised of a human model of a cognitively and biorelationally void environment? What do organisms which (very rapidly) evolve in a falsified environment lacking their anciently co-elaborated transports of relation with other organisms — become?

The problem here is obvious. A paramecium observed amongst its consorts or found in nature is an animal. But an animal separated from its consortia, or raised in isolation — is not at all the same form of being as its native counterpart. The specificity of naming things deludes us here because a creature isolated and observed is not the same ‘species’ as one allowed the congress, liberties and necessities of relation which will consistently emerge in novel and living recombinance in any environment from which the force and result of human ideas has been subtracted.

Those things in the dishes aren’t what we’re telling ourselves, at all. The limitations we enforce with our need for mechanistic ‘precision’ are not actually limitations, but a gross shaving away of relational dimensions, transports of unification — whole universes of dimensionality.”