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# The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/the-whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/
- Published: 2012-08-02T23:36:43.000Z
- Updated: 2012-08-02T23:36:43.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Uncategorized, creation, jellyfish, rat heart cells, silicone, synergy, #Migrated-1787483357778, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:09

I read about this development about a week ago, and I still don't know what I think about it. As a feat of engineering it is beyond par-excellence, and that is where I stop to take a few breaths... The engineer's intentions may halt with attempting to understand how the heart beats, but in creating (or recreating?) something as relatively simple as a swimming silicone-jellyfish, he seems to have stumbled upon a nexus where the multiple wills of nature meet and participate without conflict in the fashion of a life-form.