In a message dated 11/02/2007 17:31:19 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. If you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units. However, while you have been reading the book, you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy, in the form of food, into disordered energy, in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat. This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units - or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain - and that's if you remember everything in this book." Case, >From an moq perspective there are four levels of patterns at work here: 1. The inorganic is increasing in thermal entropy/disorder. (By the way, you recently rejected entropy as a measure of disorder.) 2. Biological patterns parasitising thermal entropy for an increase in information order. 3. There is no acknowledgement of social patterns in Hawking's account, which is unsurprising. However, Hawking does not exist in a socially conditioned vacuum. 4. The intellectual patterns of science. Note the paradigm employed by Hawking delineates between energy and information. No. 6: What do you want? No. 2: In-Form-ation. No. 6: Well, you won't get it! No. 2: By hook or by crook we will. (followed by manic laughter). 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/
