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Subject: Life is Information
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A structure that is much larger than a human must
experience birth and death -- only we don't perceive 
it -- we think it's changeless -- because it happens 
over such a larger period of time (as space-time is 
a continuum).
     The structure was "born" is when it "more rapidly"
formed.  It will die is when it more rapidly deforms.
It "lives" because its formation and deformation are at
an equilibrium.
     What we call life is really carbon chains (crystals).
     "Birth" is when these chains rapidly crystalize and 
"death" is when they rapidly decrystalize and "life" is when 
the carbon chains have a balance between the cystalizations
and decrystalizations.
     When a drummer pounds a drum, a "wave form" is rapidly
formed (the "thing" is born).  Soon the wave form rapidly
dissipates (it dies). But in the middle, the drum`s resonance
propagates the wave form (it lives) -- the wave form is
maintained -- because as it dissipates, resonant energy 
re-propagates it in a "balanced" way.
     Wave forms, like life, like all things, are information,
are structure.


