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sl8

(16,922 posts) Fri Mar 24, 2023, 05:22 AM Mar 2023

Self-assembling wires:

Self-Assembling Wires

Stanford Complexity Group

2015 Feb 9

An exploration of a fascinating self-organizing system.
Created by the Stanford Complexity Group

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Self-Assembling Wires That Can Solve a Maze!

The Action Lab

2021 Apr 18

In this video I show you how to make self-assembling wires that seek out and find the opposing electrode. I show you how this can even be used to solve a maze (kind of)!

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Self-assembling wires: (Original Post) sl8 Mar 2023 OP

Woah! Never heard of this. Ty electric_blue68 Mar 2023 #1

IT'S ALIVE!!! Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2023 #2

Nope :: Not Self-Assembling Nor Smart Wires Ahna KneeMoose Mar 2023 #3

electric_blue68

(24,476 posts)

1. Woah! Never heard of this. Ty

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Fri Mar 24, 2023, 09:39 AM

Mar 2023

Hermit-The-Prog

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2. IT'S ALIVE!!!

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Fri Mar 24, 2023, 12:09 PM

Mar 2023

The (top) experiment also provides an illustration that electricity doesn't "follow the shortest path to ground", it follows all available paths until one proves superior.

Ahna KneeMoose

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3. Nope :: Not Self-Assembling Nor Smart Wires

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Fri Mar 24, 2023, 12:44 PM

Mar 2023

I'm not an engineer nor a scientist, however:

Electricity has forced this observational interaction.

Those metal spheres have no 'self-assembling' volition of their own.

Stating metal spheres 'seek out an opposing electrode' gives them a modicum of sentience they do not possess.

Without exposure to electricity metal spheres would remain 'static' forever (save for small movement due to gravity).

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