In a message dated 1/23/2000 11:35:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, jr@shasta.com
writes:
<< "extropy" doesn't really
>come into the picture until Max created it.
I like to think of extropy as the opposite of entropy because of the
linguistic
symetry involved. It parallels the construction of /exit/ and /entrance/ as
opposites. In his 1994 book _Out of Control_, Kevin Kelly writes, "They are
not
sure what they are looking for, but they intuitively feel that it can be
stated
as a complementary force to entropy. Some cll it anti-entropy, some call it
negentropy, and a few call it extropy. >>
Yes but that is because of max
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