Thanks for the link. This thread has had me thinking quite a bit about the Central Limit Theorem from probability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem It explains why so many of our measurements result in normal distributions. -David Leibs On Jun 17, 2012, at 9:36 AM, GrrrWaaa wrote: > > On Jun 16, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Wesley Smith wrote: >>>> If things are expanding then they have to get more complex, they encompass >>>> more. >>> Aside from intuition, what evidence do you have to back this statement >>> up? I've seen no justification for this statement so far. >> >> As I recall, there was a recent Nobel prize that boiled down to: Increase >> the energy flowing into a system, and new, more complex, behaviors arise. > > Are you thinking of Prigogine's dissipative structures? Nobel laureate in > 1977. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
