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Entropy: "to describe energy loss in irreversible processes". We have no clue about what is or is not reversible. Complex systems exhibit self-organizing behavior for no reason (that we understand), and we continue to identify more conditions under which this occurs. How does a Nobel Prize get handed out for identifying/quantifying "self-organization" http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/COMPNATS.html without bringing everything we think we know about entropy under scrutiny? Self-organization does not consume energy any more than entropic decay emits it. Irreversibility is a poor assumption.
parent raven105x 4 years ago

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