Fragility is in many regards the natural state of all systems and organisms. Something the Second Law of Thermodynamics tends to support. Given this inherent fragility, the secret to existence is largely a perpetual struggle to prevent fragility becoming the defining condition of a system/organism, in keeping the fragility in the background: something our organic and non-organic systems have developed very clever and astute methods for achieving, so much so that we normally are unaware of
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