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- From: tomh@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Tom Holroyd)
- Subject: Re: Self-Reference and Paradox (was Re: Human intelligence...)
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:21:48 GMT
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- jthomas@kolanut.mitre.org (Joe Thomas) writes:
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- > In article <wa1uVB2w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> tomh@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Tom
- > Holroyd) writes:
- > > Most phenomena that are mysterious to "classical" (i.e. newtonian)
- > > physics are well understood in terms of the pattern and structure
- > > forming properties of systems that are far from equilibrium, which
- > > includes among other things, us. When energy flows *through* a
- > > system, it can self-organize; this is in contrast with the closed
- > > systems of classical physics. The universe may or may not be closed,
- > > but locally, it is certainly not closed, and most of the physics in
- > > Penrose's book doesn't apply.
- >
- > In any case, is your statement that the universe is "certainly not closed"
- > meant to imply that energy "flows *through*" the universe from high entropy
- > to low entropy the same way it flows through living creatures? Where does
- > the energy come in and go out? I thought the universe _was_ considered
- > closed in this way.
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- I said "locally, it is certainly not closed," which is true.
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