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Christopher C. Wood wrote:
> 
> 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:
> 
> [ snip ]
> 
> |> > 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.
> 
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As soon as your body is in equlibrium you are a case for the undertaker.

Achim 
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