Message-ID: <000b01be32db$f7c593e0$0b73fea9@jay98> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 17:33:12 -1000 From: Jay Hanson <mailto:j@QMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: LIFE IN REVERSE To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
----- Original Message ----- From: Wilbur Streett <mailto:WStreett@mail.Monmouth.com>>>Erwin Schrodinger (1945) has described life as a system in steady-state
>>thermodynamic disequilibrium that maintains its constant distance from
>>equilibrium (death) by feeding on low-entropy from its environment -- that
>>is, by exchanging high-entropy outputs for low-entropy inputs. The same
>>statement would hold verbatium as a physical description of our economic
>>process. http://dieoff.com/page150.htm
>Once again, you don't supply any context as a basis for you statement.
Context? "Life on Earth" is the context. What planet are you on?
>and as was discussed before, the econonic system is not a physical, but
>social system, so the formula presented above does not hold.
The economic system is not a physical system? You mean it's all make believe? <G>
Jay