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To: betty boop
And yet I have read that living systems require very high entropy and immense amounts of information. In this particular regard they would appear to resemble a classical gas -- and yet living organisms are not classical gasses. What accounts for the difference?

Though the question is not addressed to me, I can't resist answering anyway. In a word: organization.

550 posted on 03/10/2005 12:31:57 PM PST by Tamberlane
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To: Tamberlane
Though the question is not addressed to me, I can't resist answering anyway. In a word: organization.

I'll go you one farther, Tamberlane: self-organization. How do you suppose that works? Thanks so much for writing!

557 posted on 03/10/2005 1:00:52 PM PST by betty boop (If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. -- Gen. George S. Patton)
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