What is an Organizational Tensegrity?

Our bodies are organized as life tensegrities. It is this powerful tensegrity pattern that allows you and I to exist. It is the tensegrity pattern that allows for the organization of the forty trillion cells into a single human individual. Imagine organizing forty trillion individuals into a well-coordinated whole, so well coordinated that the whole – the forty trillion celled body of the Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retner can claim Gold with a 10.00 on the vault. And, if Mary Lou wants to do it again, the forty trillion cells that comprise her body happily oblige. If a tensegrity of cells can claim Olympic gold, what achievements await the creation of a tensegrity of humans? I believe in the future we could use the tensegrity to organize first thousands, then millions and eventually billions of people into single well-coordinated wholes.

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