Bailey, Denis: The Global Organism

The Global Organism develops a relational‑structural account of the modern world as a coherent, living‑like system. Rather than treating global events as the outcomes of isolated national decisions, the paper shows that large‑scale behavior emerges from the interaction of tightly coupled subsystems—economic blocs, security alliances, energy networks, and information infrastructures—that collectively function as an integrated operator. Using the same structural principles that govern biological o