The Ecosystem of Human Learning

Abstract

Any form of life is a complex system made of one, few, or billions of cells. Each cell is a complex system as well: an organism in itself, performing thousands of biochemical reactions each second, as a consequence of all sorts of stimuli/information. Living beings are lifelong learners. As long as we arrive to internalize this information—about us as “galaxies” of systems of cells—we are allowed to be conscientious of ourselves and to process all the stimuli in an efficient manner. For a human being, learning should involve introspection and external complex system analysis as well. The main preoccupation, in learning, should be to study and analyze our own thoughts, emotions, and experiences, connecting the knowledge we acquired on the nervous and endocrine system in a complex relationship with all the other systems that allow us to exist—from nano (quantum physics) to macro (newtonian physics)—with us as a link in this huge net of morphogenesis, which can be mathematically described.