The structure of matter can retain the memory of life

The axiom of biology is that energy flow is necessary to maintain the dynamic organization of living systems, and that as soon as the energy flow is interrupted it leads to disintegration and death.

Mae-Wan Ho shares research on the bine shrimp Artemia where the cessation of energy flow does not necessarily lead to death.¹ The structure of living matter can, when properly preserved, retain the memory of life itself. It is the structural organization of a protein in the shrimp that may hold the key to this ability.²

Notes:
1. Mae-Wan Ho, The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms, p. 212.
2. Ibid., p. 213.