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Started by Alice
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:02
open letter to fr.comp.os.linux.moderated readers
Author: Alice
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:02
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:02
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 * * 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. * * Life itself is a negentropy pump. The universe means more than a * collapsed energetic equation of 'x-heat = x-cold = nothing', because * information structures the balance. The result is the sun, moon and * stars... We have a lot of different kinds of cells in our bodies; hair, bone, eye, brain, toenail, teeth, lung, skin... And they all started from ONE CELL. And they all knew where to go and which type to become. And how to operate together in a large complex system. A single cell, in its DNA strands, holds a MASSIVE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION. Every cell in our body is structured by information, the DNA helix. This information structuring is why we don't just splash to the ground in a muddy puddle of our constituent chemicals. We are matter structured by information. "We are starshine" ---Woodstock ---- Whew! Cybernetics is VERY heavy-duty stuff. It can yield the ULTIMATE in control. It can be applied to controlling peo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.4.2 rEzWQsBvx6np64HA3fKQNGd5FaPDmKfkXUwJa5XROyBcWm/FvsahWlOK8OUPpcxj 9k2ucB5KfDqDn7ZygiutKJmOFyH4vqD3ydchrhC2is1oD7jr6dGtpOkSA8G2Gl2C UX9PhO9MDs/hGKeOvl3ZojivR0x2NMdlhjcWjNE/iRiAjMnbvhVlc8QUMH45vqJk vjDKo38GeXR6kgx4Xy2JWkrzKq== =KZKA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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