[phantompeace]

What is the Essence? In my head I picture movement or electrical fields propagating from some sort of proto cell like structure, but the more I try to “zoom” in, the more I try to find the finger that caused the ripple on the pond surface, so to speak

[groestl]

Just the arrangement, the structure, of the simpler things a system is made of, which allows a system to a) sustain and b) replicate.