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Our research in natural complex systems led us to an interesting study on primordial
bacteria that provided us with a vivid representation of the main features that need to
be present in entities composing a complex system. In this recent study it has been
noted that bacteria is capable of self engineering in the sense that it can "utilize
intricate communication capabilities to cooperatively form (self-organize) complex
colonies with elevated adaptability-the colonial pattern is collectively engineered1
according to the encountered environmental conditions." Network configuration sheet is
described to be "analogous to a complex man-made cybernetic system composed of
information-processing systems and at least two thermodynamic machines. Their
outer membranes enable them to sense the environment and to exchange energy,
matter, and information with it. The internal state and stored information of the cell
and the surrounding conditions regulate the membranes."
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