Re: [Fis] Economic Networks

Re: [Fis] Economic Networks

From: Viktoras Didziulis <[email protected]>
Date: Fri 06 May 2005 - 10:00:11 CEST

 Stan wrote:
> Because of this
> generally poor energy efficiency, it is legitimate to say that whatever
> occurs does so IN ORDER TO PRODUCE ENTROPY.
 
Dear Stan,
some questions to meditate on :-)
 
whatever occurs there are two sorts of "things" always going on:
A) production of entropy - 2nd law,
B) production of structure - (self)organization (???law).
 
If we assume that whatever occurs it does so in order to produce entropy (A)
 then (self)organization (B) is "just" a side-effect of entropy production..

 
Otherwise whatever occurs it does so in order to produce structure (B), then
entropy (A) is "just" a side-effect of (self)organization...
 
Which one of the two statements above is true ?
 
Is it so that when I write the message (like this particular one) I am
driven by the final reason to produce entropy by increased usage of
electricity, making keyboard and processor of my PC a bit warmer and heating
some cables on the way to people I communicate with, in order to force
somebody's brain to burn more glucose in order to release more warm into
environment thus increasing global warming and adding some more heat into
the expanding Universe in order to drive it's state a bit further from
thermodynamic equilibrium then it is now ? Is the meaning of the message
encoded within grammatical language structures just a waste-product of the
entropy production chain ? Whichever - entropy or (self)organization is the
purpose and the driving force of whatever occurs ?
 
The same would be valid for any complex structure or system, would it be
genetic code, living organism, ecosystem, or architecture, cities, countries
 creations of science or art. In every process of (self)organization there
are always two results produced - structure and waste (entropy). Content of
energy is higher in wastes while content of information is higher in
structures. Whichever - energy or information - is more important in this
context ?
 
So is the ENTROPY the final cause of (self)organization, or is it an
inevitable side-effect ? Do we build our architecture (and overall
civilization) in order to produce waste and release more energy into our
environment (***thus driving our civilization towards a sure death), or in
order to build something that we could look at, walk through or live in ?
Are we having environmental problems because of all the waste (heat,
pollution released into our environment) we produce, or should we look at
production of all that waste as the driving force and the final reason of
emergence of our human civilization and all economies ?
 
If the Entropy is the final reason, then it also means that the final reason
of our civilization is its final death (refer to ***)...
 
Best regards
Viktoras
 

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