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Living systems are dissipative structures that create internal order by expending energy in exchange for a local reduction in entropy. This is true at every level of biological organization and increasingly so the more abstract such order becomes within living systems. For instance, genes create an abstract information framework within which multicellular organisms may modify the topology of the epigenetic information state space in order to adapt and subsequently evolve. This may include changing the genes that are themselves involved in the abstract information framework or altering the manner in which these genes coordinate their activity. Nevertheless, as complexity (and therefore order) increases in a biological system, the amount of abstraction within that system also increases. This creates, in effect, an increase in information density. At the level of the brain, this abstraction becomes evident as the information structure known as the mind. Certain theories posit that such an ordering alters the information state of the surrounding environment such that, for ever decreasing levels of entropy, there is a net local entropy deficit or information moment impressed upon the surrounding environment by the extant local information structures. In this way, the mind, an abstract phenomenon seated in the physical substrate of the brain, may be capable of inducing a local entropic force that, when summed among many minds simultaneously, produces an even more amplified phenomenon known as the noosphere...... i think we will be seeing more, more and more of these coincidences .. i hope we can make them loving positive ones .. and not based on our primal fears............. ALL is LOVE ....... money.cnn/2014/08/27/investing/isis-pharma-ice-bucket/
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:32:16 +0000

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