A living organism that runs our engine on itself. Each cell relaxation-labels toward its neighbours (the E-step); then the body reshapes (the M-step) — it grows where it's coherent, grooms away cells that can't decide, tunes its own temperature to the critical edge, and buds a child when it's whole. It feels, grooms, grows, and reproduces itself. Shown two ways — the simplicial body (a mesh of cells & triangles that flexes like a 3-D form) and the grid body (the same organism on a 2-D lattice). Same rule, same three cell-types. Click to poke it.
T (relaxation labeling). M-step (morphogenesis) — grow: a coherent boundary sprouts a new cell (the "can");
groom: an undecided cell is pruned (the "cannot"); reproduce: a whole, coherent body buds off a peripheral patch as a
free child. Self-organized criticality — T auto-tunes (simulated annealing with a homeostatic set-point): it heats
when the body freezes, cools when it churns, hovering at the critical edge between order and chaos.