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- From: Vance <nyhzsgqc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:31:54 GMT
the Second Law of
* Thermodynamics, which everyone of education has encountered.
*
* This is sometimes referred to as 'the universe is running down'.
Okay, 'entropy', yeah I remember that kinda. Keep going:
Our solar system is a lot of matter that is NOT sitting in a situation of
entropy: the sun is radiating heat at the planets. Instead of just matter
smoothing out to a common low-energy state, a burning fireball is at work.
Cybernetics states that under conditions
like this, matter does something special.
* "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1
*
* If we have a universe, which is improbable though it exists, it is
* because the Second Law of Thermodynamics has two forms. One is concerned
* with the pressure to even out energy; that is the form which belongs to
* our stereotyped conception of the universe. It betokens death.
*
* The other form is about information content, which leads to greater
* organization and increasing complexity. That form betokens life.
What would be a specific example of energy causing matter
to be formatted by information, becoming "more complex"?
* "The Human Use of Human Beings", by Norbert Wiener
*
* A light quantum is a very small thing, but it turns out the e
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