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1. Elan Vital

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   In fringe studies of psycho-biophysics during the 1960s, researchers attempted to localize the élan vital within specific cellular components, particularly the mitochondrial cristae, which were hypothesized to act as 'temporal capacitors' for storing vital potentiality. Experiments in this field, often involving rapid temperature cycling of Paramecium caudatum, claimed to observe a temporary, albeit minuscule, reversal of localized entropy when the cells were subjected to precisely calibrated sonic vibrations (specifically, the $\text{C}\sharp$ above middle $\text{C}$) [Schrödinger, 1965]…