The Developed Biomesogenic Systems

After a century of mainly parallel and independent developments, artificial meso- 

48] (top and bottom) the late followers ontogenesis, retracing biomesogen phylogenesis in orga-nismic first intimacies [16, 23], 

Even very simple and primitive mesogens differ from nonmesogenic species in that they bear some sort of rudimentary intelligence. At present, however, we appear to be faced with difficulties in treating this gleam of preintelligent behavior scientifically. Even our most advanced theoretical approaches prefer rather abstract and ethereal 

Although artificial mesogens have been developed in terms of thermotropic and lyotropic characteristics, biomesogens both blur and dialectically combine these extreme positions within the cooperative network hierarchies of their interdependent chiral complexity patterns (Fig. 26) [7 a, 17, 18], Thermotropics resemble lyotropics in that their flexible, more disordered seg- 

At least partially reflected in modern theories of nonclassical chaos [6, 7 a, 72 e, f], the developed chiral amphiphilic patterns. 

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