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Wow, that's surprising.
by laserDinosaur 14y ago
Wow, that's surprising.
- SilasX 14y agoSorry to get so late to this exchange, but that gets really interesting when put in perspective. I was reading this book that showed a correlation between: a) Net free energy flux per volume, and b) Complexity a) Is basically the measure being discussed here (free energy flux = useful energy that crosses the boundary) The author then listed a bunch of stuff in increasing order of a), and it roughly corresponds with our notions of complexity (or at least "interesting" or "directed" complexity, some similar concept). The list (smallest to largest) went about like this: Stars Planets (measured by change in energy of the light reaching vs leaving it) Life-bearing planet (only one example, obviously) Plants Fish Mammals (I'm skipping a few here) Humans Human brains Human societies Cars Airplanes Power plant turbines Airplane engines Computer chips (Pretty neat correlation)