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Brief or concise: a telegraphic style of writing. American Heritage® Dictionary having the style of a telegram with many short words left out Synonym: concise - expressing much in few words from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University Although my usage of the term matches these definitions, I'll avoid using it when it connotes something like telepathic to people

"The essence of life is (interconnected) process. If the processing of material-energy and information ends, life also ends. The defining characteristic of life is the ability to maintain, for a significant period, a steady state in which the entropy (or disorder) within the system is significantly lower than its non-living surroundings. So the sequel to Renan's Law is: "And living systems want to stay connected in order to survive". We see the echo's of this in the Internet Freedom protection projects. Living systems according to Parent (1996) are by definition "open self-organizing systems that have the special characteristics of life and interact with their environment. This takes place by means of information and material-energy exchanges. Living systems can be as simple as a single cell or as complex as a supranational organization such as the European Union. Regardless of their complexity, they each depend upon the same essential twenty subsystems (or processes) in order to survive and to continue the propagation of their species or types beyond a single generation".[4]"