[Vendome]

Guess FR is back to broken...

Oh well. Got other things to do today.

[MrB]

So the messier my desk is, the smarter I am?

[MortMan]

Does anyone else think that entropy may simply be a quantum level of order for which we limited humans have yet to discover the patterns? ;-P

[PeterPrinciple]

models of the Universe that incorporated causal entropy were more likely to come up with a Universe that contains intelligent observers - that is, us.

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I used to build model airplanes when I was a kid, none of them actually flew.................

[UCANSEE2]

The height of educated stupidity will be when we can see all the Universe, and yet still don’t get it.

[InterceptPoint]

Reading this article reminded me of a great book by Erwin Schrodinger for those interested in the connections between physics and life. The same guy who brought us the famous Schrodinger's Equation of Quantum Mechanics weighs in on "Life". A short but very insightful read.

Here is an Amazon link: What is Life?

[mjp]

"The paper argues that intelligent behaviour, which is hard to quantify, can be reduced to maximising one's options, which is relatively easy to quantify.

And each individual can maximize his options better under conditions of limited government, freedom, and capitalism rather than statism,tyranny, and socialism.

[Linda Frances]

He who sits in the heavens laughs.

Psalm 2:4

[dangus]

The problem with abiogenesis, or biopoeisis, is the notion that life, a fantastically complex thing, formed from organic compounds, which are relatively simple. Under this model, however, one would see life as a means of maximizing potential choices. While simple organic compounds must act very simply and predictably, life can act in fantastically divergent means.

The only problem is, as the article states, this doesn’t explain anything from first principles. While the atheist finds hope to further explain away God, the theist finds yet another apparent confirmation of the cosmological proof of God: a need for a first thing upon which all else depends.

(Mind you, the cosmological proof does not, in itself, tell us much ABOUT God.)

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Ohomo - the Entropy President.