A constellation, living or social, is not its members but the order among them, and it must keep drawing energy from outside to hold that order. For a knowledge commons the energy is contribution and upkeep: when it stops, the claims are all still there but the commons is not.

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  Life is like a constellation then, the stars of which are molecules. The constellation is not any of its stars, but the order among them all. A life form, any life form, must consume energy to maintain its internal structure, and the energy has to come from the outside world.

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