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1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1
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*   The term 'entropy' began life as a subtle measure of energy flow.
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*   When something hotter is systemically bound to something cooler, the
*   greater energy of the hotter stuff migrates---inexorably migrates---
*   into the cooler stuff. This is one manifestation of the Second Law of
*   Thermodynamics, which everyone of education has encountered.
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*   This is sometimes referred to as 'the universe is running down'.

Okay, 'entropy', yeah I remember that kinda. Keep going:

Our solar system is a lot of matter that is NOT sitting in a situation of
entropy: the sun is radiating heat at the planets. Instead of just matter
smoothing out to a common low-energy state, a burning fireball is at work.

Cybernetics states that under conditions
like this, matter does something special.

*   "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1
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*   If we have a universe, which is improbable though it exists, it is
*   because the Second Law of Thermodynamics has t