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If you have a glass of separated half coffee on the bottom and cream on the top, the complexity temporarily increases as the two halfs mix. Then the complexity
by platz 7y ago
If you have a glass of separated half coffee on the bottom and cream on the top, the complexity temporarily increases as the two halfs mix.
Then the complexity goes down again, as it becomes uniformly mixed.
Yet, the coffee and cream are not alive.
- hippich 7y agoGranted, I am total noob in that topic, but how your example of cream and coffee mixing and reaching equilibrium different from a cell receiving an electrical spike pushing it to do its thing until it is done and settling at some equilibrium? Is cell is not alive?
- sooheon 7y agoWhat are the chances of coffee and cream molecules being arranged in just that configuration without the intervention of life forms with caffeine addictions and ceramics factories?
- platz 7y agowhat are the chances of an initial state of the universe with extremely low entropy? the low entropy starting initial condition is the same in both cases, the glass is meant to be an analogy of the big bang.
- sooheon 7y ago> Then the complexity goes down again, as it becomes uniformly mixed. This part is incorrect. It requires the intervention of energy by motivated life forms to to un-mix a mixture of coffee and cream, therefore it is very high entropy.