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Ilya Prigogine had a nice mantra:

Matter at equilibrium is "blind," but far from equlibrium it [matter] begins to "see."

I love this line but I see no need for quotation marks.  After all, here you are - made of matter, as real and palbable as it gest, at a metabolic disequilibrium - seeing this screen, reading and pondering the meaning of this post.  So, let me restate Prigogine's point:

Matter at equilibrium is blind, but far from equlibrium it [matter] begins to see.