"Much of mechanistic-reductionist science, and the narrowly deterministic technology it has produced, is...about exerting coercive power and control by fragmenting the universe into decontextualized, simplified, categorical entities that can be named and put to use (aka entropic "I-It" relations, which cannot yield life), without concern for the needs and interests of these entities, their individuality, identity, or history. It involves destroying the pluripotential value of these complex unpredictable entities and the relations they help to create and sustain, in service of predictability and its progeny (death, consumption, convenience, desire, power, control, and status). Evolving biological systems transcend scientific determinism because their expanding complexity and optionality create novel boundary conditions that prohibit accurate description by differential equations and outstrip any capacity for truly accurate modelling. The Syntropic I-Thou relations necessary for autopoiesis and persistence of complex non-equilibrium systems (living things), entails the mystery of myriad accidents and choices - woven through space and time. We can participate in this, and thereby understand more of it''.