From: Prof. Jose Gomes Filho (gomes@dpx.cnen.gov.br)
Date: Wed Aug 20 1997 - 11:39:22 MDT
On 20 Aug 97 at 13:29, Anders Sandberg (Anders Sandberg
<extropians@extropy.org>) wrote about Re: Extropy and Life (I):
>
> Complexity can thrive when the local entropy isn't too low or too
> high ("the edge of chaos"). The entropy flow out of the system sets
> an upper limit to the complexity of the structures which can exist in
> it.
>
but, considering the structures: organisms, it is possible that one
structure can change such flux, modifying, consequently, its
own complexity upper limit ... for example, is the maximum
complexity of the set of possible genetic mutations of a certain
organism (genetically based, of course...) upper limited or even
necessarily dependent on the entropy outflow ?
Sin,
Gomes.
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