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To: js1138
I am not arguing for information degradation in a single celled organism.

I do say that everything in space/time - whether a live amoeba or a dead amoeba - is subject to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

The live amoeba pays the thermodynamic tab when it successfully communicates (Shannon) - by dissipating heat into the local environment as the receiver (molecular machinery internal to itself) moves from a before state to an after state.

Again, communications is autonomous. The single celled organism is autonomous, self-contained.

In autonomous higher organisms, communications are multi-cellular.

388 posted on 01/29/2009 11:00:50 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
I am not arguing for information degradation in a single celled organism. I do say that everything in space/time - whether a live amoeba or a dead amoeba - is subject to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

It would be remarkable if something were found to be unaffected by thermodynamics.

But there is a common notion amongst evolution critics that living things degrade as a result of entropy, and that this is an inescapable law of nature.

I'm merely offering a counterexample.

391 posted on 01/29/2009 11:12:04 AM PST by js1138
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