From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 12:08:54 MST
Technotranscendence wrote:
>
> If noise is an example of entropy in action, then some might say this list
> is actually not extropic, but entropic.:) (Someone dared me to say that
> here.:)
Entropy will be generated no matter what. But there is a difference
between the dust of construction and the dust of demolition. Human
beings, as complex as they are relative to most known life forms, take
a correspondingly large (relative) amount of energy to create - but,
once created, they are capable of creating even more complex and
ordered systems, some of which actually help stave off mass chaos (for
example, if another large asteroid were about to strike Earth, there is
now a decent chance that it would be diverted or otherwise prevented,
thus saving most of the existing higher biological order on Earth).
Further, in setting up the structures of the future, some limiting
structures of the past (superstition, deathism, et cetera) will
necessarily be destroyed.
Thus, it is possible to be both entropic and extropic simultaneously.
Would you like your tea and no tea now? ^_^;
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