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Posted by Rod on August 28, 2007, 8:47 pm
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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
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* A light quantum is a very small thing, but it turns out the energy
* transfer which is necessary for an effective information coupling
* is quite small.
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* Thus, for the leaf of a tree, photosynthesis uses radiation from the
* sun to form starch and other complicated chemicals necessary for life,
* out of the simpler atoms of water and the carbon dioxide of the air.
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* An enormous local decrease in entropy may be associated with quite a
* moderate energy transfer.
Sunshine on a photosynthesising leaf. The Sun as direct life-giver.
Causing matter to become more complex: simple atoms transformed to
more complex molecules. On purpose, to sustain life.
Ground zero, a soup-of-life mixture zapped with energy:
Scientists have absolutely no problem creating amino acids - the building
blocks of all life - from constituent chemicals. It takes a Darwinian
amount of time to get higher-evolved life forms, but it eventually happens.
This property of matter to spontaneously become more complex is called
negentropy (negative entropy), and it means 'matter formatted by information'.
* "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1
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* We human beings mean more than the few-pence-worth of our chemical
* constituents, because information *informs* those component chemicals
* by means of a genetic blueprint.
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* Life itself is a negentropy pump. The universe means more than a
* collapsed energetic equation of 'x-heat = x-cold = nothing', because
* information structures the balance. The result is th
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