"Life is the only thing in the universe that can make objects that are composed of many unique, recursively constructed parts.
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If we are ever to understand what life really is, we need to recognize that among the unimaginably large number of things that could exist, or even the smaller subset of ones that we can imagine, only an infinitesimal fraction ever will. Things come into existence when and where it is possible to—and what we call life is the mechanism for making specific things possible when the possibility space is too large for the universe to ever explore all of it....
We are each just one temporary instance of life on this planet—a pattern of information structuring matter across billions of years."
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