Hal,
so yhou look at it... (at what?) - anyway from the standpoint of the 'physical' model.
Can you come closer totell what you are 'looking at'?
Happy 2007!
John M
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From: Hal Ruhl
To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: The Meaning of Life
One way to look at "life" is from the point of view of energy hang-up
barriers - those various facts about the structure of our universe
that slow the dissipation of useful energy concentrations.
"Life" drills holes in these barriers and thus is on the fastest
system path to maximum entropy.
That could be why "life" appeared "quickly" on earth and should also
do so wherever conditions permit.
Life forms that are bigger [hold larger drills] and smarter [invent
more kinds of drills] produce a wider variety of holes in the barriers.
Since body size and brain size [complexity] have only a lower bound
and the thermodynamics above gives an additional bias towards large,
smart life forms to an otherwise goal less evolution, large SAS seem
inevitable.
Thus is life in a universe that can support it just an unavoidable
thermodynamic tool and SAS just the top grade of such tool?
Hal Ruhl
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