With one connecting wire and a one-page owner's manual -- and no external speakers or wires -- these are the simplest home theater systems ever invented.

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For Deacon, the answer has to lie in a closer look at self-organizing processes and how the origins of life and consciousness are rooted in the constraints that bind and shape these processes as they build from the simplest self-assembly of molecules up to the emergence of the first life forms.

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