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From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
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Subject: Order
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 12:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 12:05:00 1985
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Dan Boskovich writes:

>   There are systems which do manifest an increasing degree of comlexity.
>   These are open systems and draw on external sources of energy. However,
>   merely having an open system and energy available from the sun does
>   not automatically generate higher order in that system . . .
>           . . .     there are certain conditions which must be satisfied
>   to cause any finite system to advance to a higher degree of order.
>
>   No system shows an increasing order unless it also possesses a specific
>   program to direct its growth and a complex mechanism to convert the
>   suns energy into specific work.

Well, I don't want to see Webster's definition for `program',
so I will refrain from asking you to define it rigorously.
Instead let me just ask, who or what programs the formation of snowflakes?

Isaac Dimitrovsky