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Arguably it does, the heat death of the universe option would spell the end of entropy, and the end of death (unless you believe in a conformal cyclic universe)
by hobs 2y ago
Arguably it does, the heat death of the universe option would spell the end of entropy, and the end of death (unless you believe in a conformal cyclic universe)
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoActually yeah fair enough; I’ll grant that death may be a system.
- _yb2s 2y agoA complex dynamic system has a large number of working parts, and responds in specific ways to inputs and stressors. It just doesn't make sense to think of death itself as a "complex system." They are certainly related- I think death could be seen as an event that irreversibly dismantles a complex system in some way, such that the parts no longer function together as a system.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoI was thinking of systems more as just processes that have low-entropy behavior, i.e. those that are predictable in some meaningful way. If one takes the process of death, which is really a behavior of any low-entropy system, to be its own object, I do think that object would be a system under my definition. I agree that yours does not come to the same conclusion, and perhaps my definition of system is too broad.