Let's start with some basic questions:

• What is money?
• What does it represent?
• Why is a bank note in my wallet different from a candy wrapper? They're both colored pieces of paper and yet we treat them differently.

Contemplate on the notion that our global economy is alive and can be likened to an animal.

Key insights:

• alive:
  • requires at least a constant flow of energy to sustain itself
  • emergent behaviour from a large number of smaller elements
  • arises, persists over a period of time, fades away / dies …