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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Thinking about the reduction of entropy.
Summary: Reducing the cost of thinking.
Keywords: Creating Order out of Chaos Cheap.
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Date: 22 Mar 89 19:04:44 GMT
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In article <550002@hpfelg.HP.COM> gary@hpfelg.HP.COM (Gary Jackoway) writes:

 > Hmm, can we actually impede the natural process of the Second Law?

The Second Law says there is a price to create order out of chaos.
It doesn't say we have to pay ripoff prices, however.

Intelligent life has the power to minimize the expenditure
associated with the creation of complex and stable systems.

So the Universe created intelligent Life in order to increase its longevity.

--Barry Kort