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  • If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive
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    @Npars01 @vfrmedia @shadowdancer @Rainmaker1973 A several decades ago (so please take this with not just one grain of salt) I attended lecture about complexity theory and biology and the professor said something like "life is basically a dissipative structure suspended in the energy potential between the infalling sunshine and the outgoing heat radiation" so, in analogy, would these complex structures self-organize to dissipate the electrical potential over the dish?

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