[MD] The Anti-entropic Miopic

[Squonkriff at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/02/2007 17:31:19 GMT Standard Time, Case at iSpots.com  
writes:

"The  progress of the human race in understanding the universe has
established a  small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.
If you  remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded
about two  million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have
increased  by about two million units. However, while you have been reading
the book,  you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered
energy, in  the form of food, into disordered energy, in the form of heat
that you lose  to the air around you by convection and sweat. This will
increase the  disorder of the universe by about twenty million million
million million  units - or about ten million million million times the
increase in order in  your brain - and that's if you remember everything in
this  book."



Case,
>From an moq perspective there are four levels of patterns at work  here:
1. The inorganic is increasing in thermal entropy/disorder. (By the way,  you 
recently rejected entropy as a measure of disorder.)
2. Biological patterns parasitising thermal entropy for an increase in  
information order.
3. There is no acknowledgement of social patterns in Hawking's account,  
which is unsurprising. However, Hawking does not exist in a socially conditioned  
vacuum.
4. The intellectual patterns of science. Note the paradigm employed by  
Hawking delineates between energy and information.
 
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No. 6: Well, you won't get it!
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