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    Crystals, fire, and rivers maintain and extend their own ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A live object has a distinctive sort of control over whether things come to be, or cease to be, part of it.

    Crystals, fire, and rivers maintain and extend their own composition through internal physical processes without external direction.

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    • 1.Crystals grow by accumulating atoms in lattice patterns through spontaneous physical laws without external agents directing the process.
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    • 2.Rivers maintain their channel and composition through erosion, deposition, and flow dynamics governed by gravity and physics alone.
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    • 3.Fire perpetuates itself through exothermic chemical reactions that sustain combustion without requiring external guidance or intervention.
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    • 1.Crystals, fire, and rivers all depend critically on external energy sources (solar heat, gravitational potential, fuel) they do not provide.
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    • 2.These processes require initial conditions and boundary constraints set externally; they cannot originate or maintain themselves without them.
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'internal processes' from 'external direction' is unclear; external forces shape composition maintenance at fundamental levels.
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