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What is a Component?
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Outline
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 - Components represent aspects and behaviors of simulants
 - Components are classes
 - ``configuration_defaults``
 - An ``__init__`` trick for generic components.
 - The ``setup`` method.

   - Load data here
   - No simulants exist yet

 - Write a good ``__repr__``