At the atomic level there’s no atom in your body that you didn’t eat, drink, or breathe from the planet. So we usually think of ourselves as living beings that sit on the planet, but it’s just as reasonable to say that we are the planet that has self-organized its material into beings that think of themselves as separate.
Watch this fascinating video by global thought leader Dr. Neil Theise, physician-scientist, anatomist, philosopher, Professor of Pathology at New York University School of Medicine, and attending physician at NYU Langone Health.