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SCALING CONSTRAINTS. "These biomechanical `constraints' undoubtedly evoke morphological or anatomical reconciliations that scale with respect to body size, geometry and shape rather than with how a particular body plan achieves its organized growth." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

“PROGRAMMABLE MATTER stores externally inputted energy to be released to do specific work at a specific time. Often, physical changes of phase or properties of materials are exploited to store this energy as coded information. "Information" in this context simply means a signal that can induce a physical change that is capable of doing some kind of work.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter View in LinkedIn

THE FRONTIER. “Phase-change memory is arguably the most advanced resistive memory technology.” https://lnkd.in/dCBsa35 View in LinkedIn

SYMMETRY BREAKING. “Phase transitions cause breaks in symmetry and result in different structural properties of many materials. These events can be exploited to program information into inert materials so that they can perform work in an orderly fashion.” (Lovely summary of phase transitions). https://lnkd.in/dmRQvzT View in LinkedIn

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SO ENDS this first of two weekends on plant body plans. Plants may as well have come from Mars biologically speaking, for they differ from animals so markedly. And although it is unfortunate that the animal maze term ‘plant intelligence’ has been used to describe their ability to predict, anticipate, and react to circumstances, which has caused an uproar in the Luddite community, these creatures without neurons clearly have the ability to cogitate in sophisticated ways. View in LinkedIn

MAJOR RADIATION COMPLETED. "By late Mesoproterozoic or early Neoproterozoic time, the major radiation events distinguishing modern-day eukaryote lineages had already taken place." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn