From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Aug 21 1999 - 15:56:22 MDT
From: Skye Howard <skyezacharia@yahoo.com>
>*joking thought*: If entropy destroys complex systems,
>and physics is a complex system of laws, can entropy
>destroy itself?
Entropy destroys (only) complex systems which fail to adapt.
Hence the dictum: "Adapt or die."
Physics (as an example of a complex adaptive system which generally adapts
more perennially than the organisms that birthed it) might easily outrun
cosmic entropy, if it can attain a Type I civilization (Michio Kaku's
coinage) as its base before theistic politicos cause a holocaustal mass
extinction.
Physics represents an extropic CAS which increases its power in proportion
as it self-organizes complexity _in opposition to_ the process of entropy.
In this regard, extropy correlates to life itself. No joke.
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