Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

"If you look very broadly across all living systems, it appears that the ability to use temperature to synchronize clocks is ubiquitous." -Joseph S. Takahashi

The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a tiny structure deep in the mammalian brain, is known as the body's 'master clock.' It receives light input from the eyes and sends out chemical and electrical signals to the rest of the body to keep it set on a 24-hour schedule.

[http://www.hhmi.org/news/internal-body-temperature-turns-back-circadian-clocks]

I find intriguing that we not just have the suprachiasmatic nucleus as a master clock, but several internal clocks that define our activity rythms. This span from the outside, a human being moving in its environment, zooming in to the inside levels of our body, to sensing organs and tiny cell structures amazes me and inspires me to think of a living and sensing textile structure under the metaphor of an sensing organic structure creating and then maybe also communicating over its own rythm of actions.