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FIGURE 5. Before.
that I would maintain a much stronger position, if I would not have given
away my neat little trick with the magnetized surfaces. Thus, I am very grate-
ful to the sponsors of this conference that they invited Dr. Auerbach
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who
later in this meeting will tell us about his beautiful experiments
in vitro
of
the reorganization of cells into predetermined organs after the cells have
been completely separated and mixed. If Dr. Auerbach happens to know
the trick by which this is accomplished, I hope he does not give it away.
Because, if he would remain silent, I could recover my thesis that without
having some knowledge of the mechanisms involved, my example was not
too trivial after all, and self-organizing systems still remain miraculous
things.
Appendix
The entropy of a system of given size consisting of
N
indistinguishable ele-
ments will be computed taking only the spatial distribution of elements into
consideration. We start by subdividing the space into
Z
cells of equal size
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