Physicists at Emory University have shown how a system of lifeless particles can become "life-like" by collectively switching back and forth between crystalline and fluid states - even when the environment remains stable. [1] We have correlated life with the notion of change in our minds. Everything that moves or changes is “alive”. And yet, change is not the carrier of life – but the messenger of death. Change is death. And in a sense, life is just a side-effect of death – not the other way around. Look at you. You used to be inanimate. You used to not exist. And yet you changed. Now you exist. You died. And now you are alive…
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