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Functional Information
A team of scientists and philosophers have published a paper in PNAS, positing that non-biological systems may be influenced by a sort of evolutionary pressure that coaxes them into more "functional systems" over time. In other words: hydrogen and helium have come together into the nearly 120 elements (that we know about so far) because of an unknown law of nature that selects for fitness in physical systems, even non-biological systems (though this concept would theoretically be the
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