Re: LIFE IN REVERSE

Jay Hanson (mailto:j@QMAIL.COM)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 17:33:12 -1000

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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