Remember your wonderful short story in an anthology entitled Shapers of Worlds. What do you think of this article in the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/12/physics-life-reductionism-complexity/685257/? Reading this article I associated your story with Life as a self-organizing information-driven system. You may have been prescient or maybe ahead of my awareness of Complex-Systems Science which won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2021.

I’ll have to claim prescience (or the influence of my subconscious), since I wrote the story (“Evanescence”) almost a year before it was published.