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out of the simpler atoms of water and the carbon dioxide of the air.
* * An enormous local decrease in entropy may be associated with quite a * moderate energy transfer. Sunshine on a photosynthesising leaf. The Sun as direct life-giver. Causing matter to become more complex: simple atoms transformed to more complex molecules. On purpose, to sustain life. Ground zero, a soup-of-life mixture zapped with energy: 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 |
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