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From: cam@edai.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550)
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Subject: Re: Thinking about the reduction of Entropy.
Keywords: Heat Death and Light Life.
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Date: 8 Apr 89 14:19:14 GMT
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In article <5778@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> ssingh@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (
SINGH S - INDEPENDENT STUDIES ) writes:

>Your very thoughts are inefficient.  They use energy inefficiently.

Not mine.  My thoughts are very efficient: they use negligibly more
energy than not thinking :-) 

But if you want to cost _all_ the overheads, note that evolution already
did that: investing in brains is cost-effective.
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK