Ever wondered about how living things and machines are more alike than you thought? Today, scientists are reimagining the relationship between machines and life with a new spin on an old idea.    Imagine life as a big, continuous flow instead of separate chunks then, patterns emerge from things big or small. This idea comes originally dates back to 1892 from a guy named Charles  Peirce. He thought everything in the world was all interconnected. He did not

    think this way just because he felt like it. They backed it up with evidence from today's exciting fields, like how we create artificial life in labs. Bioengineering, experimental biology, and cognitive sciences are all pointing to one, big thing

    Continuity, or being able to move smoothly from one state to another, is now a big deal in modern biology.  It basically shatters old ideas that things are either this or that.  For example, machines and living things are no longer separate. Weird?

    To be more exact, the study of bioelectricity in development and movement of organisims is being approached with a new perspective.   Continuity is everywhere in today's science, from studying simple cells to complex beings like the Xenobots. This idea isn't just about looking at one part but the whole. So, when scientists think about things like bioengineered organs or smart machines, they think about how everything is connected.

    It's not just about one thing or another, but rather how things work together. For example, it gives scientists a new way to think about how living things move and change. Researchers are now attempting to understand bioelectricity and maybe apply this to the morphogenesis as well. The idea of synechism, the one that says continuity is king in biology, is having a big impact.  Waiting longer than what we might expect to see the perfect result.

    Reality is tougher, would need better understanding of  Biology.  Biology is not simple and we need to stop pretending it is.  This is part of a shift.  "A lot of people like to think about things in a binary way, either/ or, black/white.  Science is more complex

    Peirce's idea also opens up new ways to look at swarming patterns in animals. When animals swarm, they move in a way that's hard to predict, but it's actually a kind of continuity.

    Being on the edge of your seat, researchers are poking at the difference between qualitative and quantitative research. What does it all mean? Just another piece of the puzzle.  Continuity is making science much more about how things happen over time, instead of just focusing on one thing at a time. It changes everything, literally.

    Synechism, which comes from the Greek words for

    joining and bringing together, looks at the world through a different lens.

Continuity in Bioengineering: The Rise of Smaller, SmarterLiving Machines

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