Re: Doomsday vs Diaspora

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 21:21:53 MDT

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    Jef stated:
    <<Regarding the question of whether there is a limit to complexity, I'm not
    qualified to debate the current theories.  I am intrigued by the way systems
    in general tend to use energy to increase local complexity, and what this
    might mean to humans in the sense of the universe playing a non-zero sum
    game. 
    - Jef >>

    Neither of us are qualified, however, I believe that both of us, and everyone
    else on this list, is bright enough to view the issue, and run with it,
    should they take an interest. I suspect it was Anders Sandburg, on his
    website who first promulgated, in a large way, using his website, the notion
    that increasing complexity is anti-entropic in nature. Life takes energy and
    material and utilizes it and changes it. Coral polyps form huge colonies, and
    eventually limestone mountains. Can humanity and later, transhumanity take
    the solar system and turn it into colonies and then, a dyson sphere, then a
    Bradury Matrioshka Brain, then a ...?



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