Ian, and Mark, Ian, you are the engineer but I don't think "parasitical" works. Entropy is increase in disorder, wasted heat or heat that can not be retrieved or converted into some other form of energy. Life works by transforming energy mostly the chemical energy stored in food, into to electrical and mechanical energy as we move about looking for more food. It is this process of energy transformation that we call life. Entropy is the energy lost to heat with each transformation.
As long as there is a readily available supply of food for energy, entropy is not that big of a factor. The main point is that Pirsig is just wrong when he says, "Then why does nature reverse this process? What on earth causes the inorganic compounds to go the other way? It isn't the sun's energy." Case moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
