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This system challenges our old ideas about nature. For a long time, we thought of the forest as a brutal battleground where every tree fights only for itself. The network shows us that survival is deeply cooperative. It forces us to rethink what an 'individual' is. If trees are plugged into the same network and share life support, where does one plant end and another begin?
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Supporting arguments
- Nature is built on cooperation as much as competition
- An individual tree is actually part of a larger superorganism
- The network blurs the boundary between self and other
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