Systematic Thinking

What am I? This question is as old as humanity.

To answer this question I think we must start by looking for my boundaries. They define me in some ways. Physically, I would have to say that my physical existence extends to where my dna ends. Structures without my dna are not likely to be considered to be me. This could change as we evolve to integrate technology into our physical being but im talking about me at the present
time.

I just mentioned another boundary. Time. My past is no longer me and my future is not yet me.

Boundaries are a thing of perception and this is where scale takes priority. I am small. Iam large. Fast. Warm. I am a set of physical comparisons relative to other physical sets. Defined in relation to other things which are in turned defined by their relativity.

Which means I am a system. Which is part of a larger system and made up of many smaller systems. Systems which all have boundaries relative to energies.

Energy is what a system really is. Energies in many forms. Potential. Static. Positive. Many forms exist for energy and what really gets interesting to me is the connections. At the boundaries.

I think of what I am and realize that I am defined by my energies as much as by where my dna exists and the flow of time. I can learn to be more aware of my energy and my focus and distortions. The contacts of my systems and those of other systems of many scales, large and small, emergent things and unlikely inteligence in unexpected places.

Just by seeing in an honest way.