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I have glanced over Shrodinger's "What Is Life?" previously. Life is thermodynamics, information/entropy/computational like you said. Clearly the lines are blur
by goldenkey 5y ago
I have glanced over Shrodinger's "What Is Life?" previously. Life is thermodynamics, information/entropy/computational like you said. Clearly the lines are blurred and the definition of life in biology textbooks is quite poor.
Still, this all begs the question of whether the particles that dominate our universe are species or are inherent from the physical laws. Then when you consider that the laws themselves may be species ..well..shoot me already. My head has begun to hurt.
- sideshowb 5y agoMaths has techniques for dealing with infinite regress - limits as N tends to infinity, fixed points, etc. Intuitively these all seem to rely on a fixed external structure of some sort (e.g. the eigenvectors of M depend on fixed M) but I wonder if there's some formulation of these techniques that doesn't?
- goldenkey 5y agoMaths has the same issue with the primes. Their definition is a recurrence with respect to themselves. If the universe is a "strange loop," like Hofstadter says, then we have very little hope of understanding a snake eating its own tail from our hierarchical models.