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The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost. Like the transient form of a whirlpool held upright by a million spinning atoms of water, it can be scattered with a fingertip.

— Kevin Kelly Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

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