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Energy Transport

As mentioned above, a cell in a multicellular organism can pass energy tokens from its store to its neighbouring cells, using the et_transport instruction. In this way, it is possible for a multicellular organism to develop specialised cells that collect energy tokens from the environment and distribute them throughout the rest of the organism, leaving other cells free to specialise in other tasks if necessary.



Tim Taylor
1999-05-29