What Are The Theological Implications of Scale?

Are cities alive? Is God a super-organism?

Geoffrey West writes that the world is composed of fractals: every entity is a scaled up or scaled down version of another entity — a city is a kind of super-organism; a cell network is a kind of micro-city.

If so, then how might we think about God?

One way is to think of God as the super-system, the system of all systems, that contains everything and is …