Welcome. Well, thank you. Hello, everybody. Thank you Roxy for this very nice introduction. And thank you, man, so for your words and for making this possible. It's really a delight to be in this company. You know, throughout my life, I've always sought the company of artists, and I have been inspired by many artists over the years and decades. As you have heard, I was trained as a physicist, and I spent 20 years doing research in theoretical high energy physics. And then, in the mid 1980s, I left physics and turned to what the life sciences where a new conception of life has emerged. Over the last 30 years or so. At the forefront of contemporary science, the universe is no longer seen as some kind of a giant machine made of elementary building blocks. We have discovered that the material world ultimately is a network of inseparable patterns of relationships. We've also discovered that the planet as a whole is a living, self regulating system, this is the celebrated Gaia theory. Correspondingly, the view of the human body as a machine, and of the mind as a separate entity, is now being replaced by one that sees not only the brain, but also the immune system, the bodily tissues, and even each individual cell as a living, cognitive system. Evolution is no longer seen as a competitive struggle for existence, but rather as some kind of cooperative dance, in which creativity and the constant emergence of novelty are the driving forces. And with the new emphasis on complexity, networks, and patterns of organization, a whole new science of qualities is now slowly emerging. During the last 30 years, I developed a synthesis of this new understanding of life, the conceptual framework that integrates four dimensions of life, the biological dimension, obviously, but also the cognitive dimension, the social dimension and the ecological dimension. I presented summaries of this framework as it evolved over the years in several books. And my final synthesis, is published in the textbook titled The system's view of life as Roxanne mentioned, and I've got a copy here, I wrote it with a friend and colleague Pierluigi luisi, who is a professor of biochemistry at the University of Rome. Now, I call my synthesis the system's view of life, because it requires a new kind of thinking, thinking in terms of relationships, in terms of patterns, in terms of context. And in science, this kind of thinking is known as systemic thinking, or systems thinking. thinking in terms of relationships, is crucial for ecology. Because ecology, you may know the word is derived from the Greek oil costs, meaning household ecology is the science of the relationships among the various members of the earth household, the plants, animals, micro organisms that make up what we call the web of life.