By: Michael Zimmerman

Keywords: Integral Ecology, sustainability, depth, span, bacteria, noosphere, biosphere, value, importance, quadrants, transcend, include

Michael Zimmerman continues to tease out the relationship between the biosphere and the noosphere through discussing how humans and other organisms can be categorized by value. Although humans require the presence of bacteria, because bacteria are more fundamental to the biosphere, humans can be considered more valuable in that they transcend and include the biosphere. [Co-Director’s note: this asset addresses the quadrants element of Integral Theory. – Barrett]