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Ground zero, a soup-of-life mixture zapped with energy:

Scientists have absolutely no problem creating amino acids - the building
blocks of all life - from constituent chemicals. It takes a Darwinian
amount of time to get higher-evolved life forms, but it eventually happens.

This property of matter to spontaneously become more complex is called
negentropy (negative entropy), and it means 'matter formatted by information'.

*   "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1
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*   We human beings mean more than the few-pence-worth of our chemical
*   constituents, because information *informs* those component chemicals
*   by means of a genetic blueprint.
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*   Life itself is a negentropy pump. The universe means more than a
*   collapsed energetic equation of 'x-heat = x-cold = nothing', because
*   information structures the balance. The result is the sun, moon and
*   stars...

We have a lot of different kinds of cells in our bodies; hair, bone, eye,
brain, toenail, teeth, lung, skin... And they all started f