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To: Neocon who wrote (91026)	12/10/2004 2:08:24 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

My favorite example is dust bunnies, those little balls of dust that slide around a house. This is a microcosm of a self-organizing system. You don't need a "dust bunny Creator" making dust bunnies. The screw and hook shapes of dust bunny parts cumulatively have enough information to assemble dust bunnies, each pretty much identical for a given environment. If you put a huge fan in your house, there is so much randomness that bunnies are torn asunder. If the house is closed up with no stirring, the dust just lies there. It is only with the impulses of random, low-level excitations and gentle stirring that motivate dust bunnies to evolve. Simple example but gives the gist of self-assembly. If you have a bunch of c-shaped links in a bag and shake it, you find a similar clotting tendency arising from the physics of surface area. That's all it is. Clumping and stirring. Still, it is amazing.