So let's redraw your silica line in here.

Next, what you'd do is add in the silica.

There wasn't like an amorphous community or anything like that.

It's hydrated dough we call the soaker that helps to start enzyme activity.

So how did that amorphous Big Bang turn into our complex cosmos?

We learned how to pack a column using cotton, sand, and silica gel.

On top, you have this fine layer that you're dropping in on top of silica gel.

But when they get hydrated and they bond to each other, they create a stronger molecule, a stronger protein we call gluten.

And those are just things that you get in a big, eventually consistent kind of amorphous sort of machine.

The Internet was that amorphous blob, or it was a silly black box with a blinking red light on it.

This is now where your silica is, but as you see, the original green band has separated into two distinct bands now.

So in this case, let's say that our column was pretty crooked, what you would see instead, this is the silica line.

And as this proceeds, again you'll see the silica line, but the separation between the two bands will actually become more and more distinct.

Remember that the stationary phase is the silica gel or other material inside the column, and the mobile phase is the solvent that you pour into it.

The silica will take up most of your column, and you would be using that to fill almost all of it, just pouring it all in until it reaches a line of, say, about here.

And in fact, through those interactions, for the first time, I was starting to get to be friends with some of those people in that big amorphous group out there that was supposed to be far away.

Now the brain may not look like much from the outside a couple pounds of pinkish gray flesh, amorphous but the last hundred years of neuroscience have allowed us to zoom in on the brain, and to see the intricacy of what lies within.

Margaret Mead, the great anthropologist, said, before she died, that her greatest fear was that as we drifted towards this blandly amorphous generic world view not only would we see the entire range of the human imagination reduced to a more narrow modality of thought, but that we would wake from a dream one day having forgotten there were even other possibilities.