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organization and increasing complexity. That form betokens life.

What would be a specific example of energy causing matter
to be formatted by information, becoming "more complex"?

*   "The Human Use of Human Beings", by Norbert Wiener
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*   A light quantum is a very small thing, but it turns out the energy
*   transfer which is necessary for an effective information coupling
*   is quite small.
*   
*   Thus, for the leaf of a tree, photosynthesis uses radiation from the
*   sun to form starch and other complicated chemicals necessary for life,
*   out of the simpler atoms of water and the carbon dioxide of the air.
*   
*   An enormous local decrease in entropy may be associated with quite a
*   moderate energy transfer.

Sunshine on a photosynthesising leaf. The Sun as direct life-giver.
Causing matter to become more complex: simple atoms transformed to
more complex molecules. On purpose, to sustain life.

Ground zero, a soup-of-life mixture zapped with energy:

Scientists have absolutely no problem creating amino acids - the building
blocks of all life - from constituent chemicals. It takes a Darwinian
amount of time to get higher-evolved life forms, but it eventually happens.

This property of matter to spontaneously become more complex is called
negentropy (negative entropy), and it means 'matter formatted by information'.

*   "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1
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*   We human beings mean more than the few-pence-worth of our chemical
*   constituents, because information *informs* those component chemicals
*   by means of a genetic blueprint.
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*   Life itself is a negentropy pump. The universe means more than a
*   collapsed energetic equation of 'x-hea


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