ELEPHANT TO MARCO:
MARCO WROTE:
> Entropy is probably the most static physical
> law. IMO, it's a Platypus. Sooner or later someone will prove it. However,
> the simplification I was talking about it's the contrary. It's the creation
> of simple patterns which allow evolution, in opposition to the entropy
> devolution to an undifferentiated continuum.
ELEPHANT:
I like the Prisig quote, but I just don't get how Chemistry Professors can
be regarded as a "simplification" of physics (you say it is the physics you
are talking about). There is, after all, such a thing as a "complexity
theory" of consciousness. I don't hold with that kind of thing, but I can
see where they are coming from, so far as the complexity of chemistry
professors is concerned.
And you kind of make my point for me, don't you, in saying that the patterns
are opposed to the entropic undifferentiatedness. That makes them a
complication, doesn't it - and not a simplification?
(mind you don't get entropic and continuous kinds of undifferentiatedness
mixed up now!)
Stuff is complex. Very complex. In fact that's what Plato calls it:
"complexes", as opposed to "elements" (not the physical kind).
>From what Rog says this one has had legs for some time, so perhaps were not
all about to break into the sunlit uplands anytime soon. Still, thanks for
the clarification,
and,
toodle pip
Pzeph
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