> [!summary] Progressive Summary # Structured Notes ## Definitions ## Chapter Summaries ### Point of Depature - Transforming > The universe is a "restaurant" consuming itself. > As I eat, the energy and matter in plants and animals become this entity I call "me" – which will in the flicker of a cosmic eye return to plants and animals. Every act of eating is an act of creating. ### Chapter 12 - How to Poison a Rat, Cow, or Human Animals have 2 basic defense systems - the gut and skin. John Garcia: "All animals have evolved coping mechanisms for obtaining nutrients and protective mechanisms to keep from becoming nutrients." When hawks normally fed white mice are given a black mouse and then injected with a toxin, they will avoid eating both black and white mice afterwards, because they discriminate mice based on taste, not colour. However, if the black mouse is given a distinctive taste, then they will learn to avoid black mice on sight. # Quotes # References