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From: ssingh@watdcsu.waterloo.edu ( SINGH S    - INDEPENDENT STUDIES    )
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Thinking about the reduction of Entropy.
Keywords: Heat Death and Light Life.
Message-ID: <5778@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 89 17:24:53 GMT
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In article <47325@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes:
>I just don't understand why an intelligent species would consciously
>take self-destruction as a goal.
>
>--Barry

Oh come on. No intelligent species would consciously take self-destruction
as a goal. It is just a consequence of it being more complex that it
is less efficient. The car you used to get to the milk store converts 
about 5% of the chemical potential energy in the fuel to work. The
rest is heat. Your very thoughts are inefficient. They use energy inefficiently. (no insult intended) The list goes on...