Yep, that's what Nick meant I assure you. He's slapping his forehead
thrice for making that reversal.
-S
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On Aug 5, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Russ Abbott wrote:
Nick, Good to hear from you. Nice description of entropy in animal
behavior!
I agree with pretty much everything you say. I'm concerned about
this sentence, though.
When entropy is low … i.e., when there is a particularly steep
gradient in some part of the universe, Nature contrives a means for
reducing that entropy and that means, paradoxically is to INCREASE
entropy in some localized portion of the universe in order to more
efficiently decrease it over all.
By a particularly steep gradient, I assume you mean any sharp change
of some property. The gradient is in some property--not any
particular property, and especially not necessarily in entropy.
I'm guessing you meant to say that Nature contrives a means for
increasing that entropy. (You did say it started out low. I agree
with that. Smoothing out the gradient would increase the entropy.)
That would increase entropy locally and globally.
-- Russ
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]
> wrote:
energy
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