After they die, cells can take on new roles and responsibilities unrelated to their original purpose.

This is an old article from 2024, how on earth did I miss this? Do we know if any work using arthrobots to deliver any kind of successful therapy is in development?

Thank you!

Also it’s strongly evoking memories of Tibetan bardo state! 🫣

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 months ago

    We tend to forget that classifications such as life and death are the way we organize things in our minds, not inherent facts of nature. There’s no strict boundary between organic and inorganic world. Life is just emergent complexity expressed in self replicating chemical patterns. It’s a gradient.

    • Maeve@lemmygrad.mlOP
      5·
      2 months ago

      The older I get, the more gradation seems to apply to probably anything I can think of. Death may point to entropy within a particular system, but (left alone) contributes to organization of other systems. Whether those other systems are desirable to individuals and societies is a new conversation.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        2 months ago

        Right, and I try to think of everything as interconnected flows now instead of independent boxes. Once you become aware of the fact that compartmentalizing things is just how we abstract complexity, you start seeing the world in a different way.

        • Maeve@lemmygrad.mlOP
          8·
          2 months ago

          Once you become aware of the fact that compartmentalizing things is just how we abstract complexity, you start seeing the world in a different way.

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