“The Music of the Body”
“Biophysicist Mac-Wan Ho remarked that no matter how diverse they are, the parts of the organism act like a good jazz band, where every player responds immediately and spontaneously to the improvizations of all the others. The ‘Music’ of the Body ranges over more than seventy octaves. It consists of the vibration of localized chemical bonds, the turning of molecular wheels, the beating of micro-cilia, the propagation of fluxes of electrons and positrons and the flowing of metabolites and ionic currents within and among cells through ten orders of spatial magnitude. As long as the organism is alive, the music never ceases. It expresses the harmonies and melodies of the individual organism with a recurring rhythm and beat, and with endless variation. The Organic Jazz Band can change key, change tempo, and even change tune, as the situation demands, spontaneously and without delay. There is a basic structure, but the real art is in the improvization, where each and every player enjoys maximum freedom of expression while remaining perfectly in tune with all the others.”
…Ervin Laszlo, 2006 - Science and the Renchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality, p. 9.