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From: mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute)
Subject: Re: Information Theory and QM
Message-ID: <1994Nov3.185532.16172@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Brighton, UK
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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 18:55:32 GMT
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In article <MARKG.94Nov3043023@elaine.teleport.com> markg@teleport.com (Mark C. Gay) writes:
>From all
>theories I have read, the universe began in a very chaotic state, and
>yet it has reached the the somewhat ordered state in which we perceive
>it.  It seems somewhat absurd to me that this has been an purely
>entropic process.

Yes, I don't understand that bit, either... and would welcome any pointers
on the subject.

>The fact that concsiousness exists, and we posess it, yet cannot
>understand what it is, or how it came to be, brings to mind many
>questions.

Although you don't state so, I (rightly or wrongly) infer that you are
lumping this in with your previous query.  If so, then in this instance,
the solution is less puzzling:  it *might* be the case that consciousness
is just a local phenomenon (e.g. to Homo Sapiens on planet Earth).  If so,
then all the entropy that consciousness manages to decrement is more than
balanced by all that which Sol, and his colleagues, spew out every second.

Just my thoughts.
-- 

Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all

