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... Matter - Energy Storage - matter - energy storing ; Motor - moving ; Channel and Net - channel and net processing ; Memory - remembering . Because matter - energy markers must be conveyed over some channel if information is to be ...
... Matter - Energy Storage - matter - energy storing ; Motor - moving ; Channel and Net - channel and net processing ; Memory - remembering . Because matter - energy markers must be conveyed over some channel if information is to be ...
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... matter - energy or information input may be somewhat differently located in space than that for another sort of ... matter - energy crossing the bound- ary . Meaning of information crossing the boundary . Sorts of information crossing ...
... matter - energy or information input may be somewhat differently located in space than that for another sort of ... matter - energy crossing the bound- ary . Meaning of information crossing the boundary . Sorts of information crossing ...
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... matter - energy inputs at all levels can be used without being converted . This is true , for instance , of part of ... matter - energy converted . Percentage of matter - energy converted . Changes in converting over time . Changes in ...
... matter - energy inputs at all levels can be used without being converted . This is true , for instance , of part of ... matter - energy converted . Percentage of matter - energy converted . Changes in converting over time . Changes in ...
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