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