On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:26:02PM +0200, Telmo Menezes wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > However a darwinian process is a natural process. In a block universe, there > > is no such darwinian process (because there is no process of any kind at > > all). > > Not sure I understand why there is no process of any kind in a block universe.
In a trivial way, there is no "change" in a block universe. But in a somewhat less trivial way, there are no irreversible processes in a block universe > > > Simply some paths in the block universe maintain the entropy constant > > against the surroundings. These paths are living beings along their lines of > > time. > > I'm not sure I can agree that, for example, a program in the Tierra > environment maintains a constant entropy against the environment. > Could you describe more precisely what you mean? > Its more of an entropy pump. Chris Adami has written some stuff on that, using a related system called Avida. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
