I am thinking of organisms like termites, whose ability to coordinate their activities we don’t really understand. Specifically, I’m thinking of Rupert Sheldrakes idea of “morphic resonance”.
As I’ve been noting everywhere, the flu ends about now every year. It runs all winter, then stops. Good ideas exist as to why, like increased Vitamin D levels and overall health improvements in those who are getting sunlight and fresh air. Sun also seems to act as a disinfectant, and coughs and sneezes, empirically, simply don’t travel as far on warm and moist air.
But there could be more. I feel like there is. It is only a feeling.
Everything is interconnected, according to modern physics, or at least most interpretations of it. This is something worth remembering, particularly for those who want to speak of “science” as if science were something other than the total output of everyone using a particular method of inquiry, or as if experts did not disagree on everything under the sun, continually and often angrily.