The rise of the Living Chain: The Blockchain Organism
(The rise of the Living Dead: The Blockbuster Orgasm)
The blockchain is really an organism,
it consumes and burns resources,
it grows, develops and heals if broken,
it has parts but cannot be reduced to them,
it can interact with its environment,
Organism
noun
1. a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
2. a form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus, protistan, or moneran.
3. any organized body or system conceived of as analogous to a living being:
the governmental organism.
4. any complex thing or system having properties and functions determined not only by the properties and relations of its individual parts, but by the character of the whole that they compose and by the relations of the parts to the whole.