Much of my difficulty derives, I think, from the lack of a vocabulary to describe what I see. I suppose I could attempt to introduce new words. But rather than go through that struggle, I choose to use already existing words to name the things I see. Unfortunately, already existing words bring many meanings with them, including meanings which do not belong here. So I find myself in a battle, trying to fight away interpretations which do not fit, so that one meaning which I intend will stand clear.
Life seems to consist of a hierarchy of organizations.
Small organizations, such as cells, somehow combine to make larger organizations, such as humans. In my view, most of the progress that living things make derives from the success that living things achieve in organizing themselves into larger organizations. This suggests how life advances-through formation of new and larger organizations. Thus, it seems clear, large or complex patterns of energy and raw materials can be exploited by numerous organizations acting together. This exploitation becomes possible as individual members of the larger organization learn the rules which profit them as individuals, acting within the larger organization.