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Programmable & Smart Matter

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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How Big Catums Can Quickly Assemble

Imagine if your clothing really was some mix of various small catam types able to rapidly assemble. And the cloak or clothes might just be some exterior element of what amounts to a second skeleton or nervous system threaded throughout your whole body, or your whole house or planet. This is a much more likely scenario for humanity entering a trans human era than options like mind uploading to digital wards and sidewark bodies. But maybe the most important thing smalt matter might assemble into is people themselves. Because we are already essentially a complex weave of catums, various cells, many not even of human d and a working to be our body. They could be tiny, two arso sized. What's implied in

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