Hi Marco and all,
MARCO
> I agree with Jonathan:
>
> > systems evolve towards increasing (degrees of) freedom.
>
> if not, they die.
>
> the only possible evolution directions are:
> 1) to entropy
> or
> 2) to freedom
>
> This is the starting point. You have to choose (!) one direction and
claim
> it's the right one.
I feel a little bad doing this while Marco is on vaction and
incommunicado, but I wish to state a disagreement.
I do not accept the "entropy vs. freedom" choice. These are the same,
not contradictory. It is one of the paradoxes of apparently "orderly"
evolution.
The overall direction is always in the direction of greater freedom AND
greater entropy.
HOWEVER, there is a choice to be made - that is the initial direction.
To illustrate the point, I can go from Jerusalem DOWN to the Dead Dea or
DOWN to the Mediterranean. These two options are different and mutually
exclusive.
Jonathan
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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