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In article <bgrafspty2.fsf@janus.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>, Marcelo Cantos <marcelo@mds.rmit.edu.au> writes:
|> e904952p@hjc.edu.sg writes:

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|> > Since far-from-equilibrium systems has a tendency to go through
|> > bifurcations and 'jump' to some other (stable) states, and living
|> > organisms are all open systems that are far from equilibrium, I
|> > somehow feel that they are related.

|> I doubt it.  I believe where you go wrong is in the assertion that
|> living systems are far from equilibrium.  

"Living systems" would be in equilibrium if what goes out is the same
as what goes in.  Last I looked, food and oxygen were different from
CO2 and human waste.

Unless you mean something else by "equilibrium".

|> If you look at organisms around you, they are extremely stable
|> entities.

They eat a lot, and excrete a lot.

|> Humans don't spontaneously dismantle on the street as a daily
|> occurrence; species don't give rise to "hopeful monsters"
|> (macro-mutation) through breeding, or when they do they are
|> generally dead.

|> Marcelo Cantos, Research Assistant      __/_   marcelo@mds.rmit.edu.au

Chris
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