i love this topic...
what is very intriging, at least to me, is that the potentiality of existence, is relative to all other existence...only by their relationships, does anything exist...
iow, without the relationship between potential particles, they do not exist...although they have the potential to exist, depending on the relationship, to other particles...lol
harmony of the spheres...
this is also the basis for the systems theory...everything depends on everything else...
take the tree...it depends on it's roots, the soil, the rain, the sun, it's trunk, it's branches, it's leaves, it's fruit, etc...and then it gives off oxygen into the atmosphere, which affects it's own growth, the sun, the rain, it's soil...etc...
we can take it as far as our minds will allow, and also state that the tree provides shelter and food for the birds and insects...bark from the tree trunk, the wood, etc. supplies many things that we humans have grown accustomed too...this could go on and on, and does, in systems theory...
take the economy...it is as far reaching as the human mind can imagine, and cannot be contained in a catagory by itself that does not infact affect everything else...
what we have here, is a living, breathing, organism...that affects and is affected by everything it includes...and it includes everything...
we look at the effect on our earth of the destruction of the rain forrests alone, and we can maybe even see how infact the simple fluttering of a butterfly's wings, can be felt on the other side of the world...
it is all very interesting indeed...