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Equilibrium is death, because equilibrium means a state of maximum entropy or disorder. Living beings are complex systems that need energy to fight entropy and stay away from a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. The immediate effect of intake of energy by a system at equilibrium is that it is driven away from equilibrium. In this article I discuss how complexity emerges in systems driven far away from equilibrium. Read the full story