From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Apr 26 2003 - 11:42:31 MDT
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> I was hardly first with that idea - it is inherent in the early
> extropian writings and the work of Ilya Priogogine. Open systems can use
> free energy to decrease their own entropy, and certain kinds of systems
> have an internal dynamics that also increases their complexity (which is
> still a somewhat vague term even after more than a decade of debate in
> the alife and complexity community).
Anders, do you have a selection of I.P. papers that you have in mind?
I'd like to flag them as being useful in terms of complexity theory
in my Author's page for him.
Thanks,
R.
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