#entropy — Public Fediverse posts
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Poimintoja tämän viikon (34/2026) uutuuspelien tarjonnasta.
https://peliuutistoimisto.fi/2026/08/18/viikon-34-2026-uutuuspelit/
#MortalShell2 #Gallipoli #TheSinkingCity2 #TukoniForestKeepers #SteinsGate #Entropy #Stalker2 #suomi #Steam #playstation #xbox #nintendo #uutuuspelit #pelit #peliuutiset #viikonpelijulkaisut
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🎭 When 𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 meets #Art, quantum magic happens! ✨ Explore the #universe where #thermodynamics shapes aesthetics and #entropy crafts beauty. From #fractals to cosmic symmetry, #science is the ultimate creator. 🌌 Discover the #Wissenschaft behind the masterpieces! 🎨⚛️ #PhysicsArt #Stem #SciArt
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Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy) | 2018 Version
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#DailyTracks #Science Edition : So #AI for #Coding is not a bust. You can speed things up considerably, particularly with porting code and language changes. For calculations however, extreme caution is warranted. If you don't know what the result of a particular calculation SHOULD be, then you can't assume things will be fine. Just tried a new technique for complex thresholding that can cut computation time in half for certain #Entropy problems.That it did. Different answer every time tho
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I keep coming back to this relatively unknown Australian dissertation -- it's about doctor-patient relations dangerously being interfered with by penny-pinching admins (residents of Eugene, Oregon are familiar with this).
160 pages in, he wants to discuss patient suffering as an #entropy avoidance signaling system. >>
"Only within an arguable and extensive ontological frame can I then begin to make sense of the core question of how an administrative intervention has impacted on doctors’ perception of their relationships with patients."
"It will be proposed in the course of this chapter that suffering in human beings, in thermodynamic terms, constitutes a rapid increase in entropy. High rates of entropy threaten the overall viability of the organism. Rapid changes in entropy activate restorative homeostatic processes which includes recruiting the help of others. States of high entropy or rapid rates of entropic increase can be ‘reversed’ (that is, suffering can be relieved) through the introduction, from external sources, of intentional non-random energy (including new information) into the human biological system."
"Humans can signal to others that they are experiencing rapid increases in entropy (i.e. that they are suffering). In this framing, hospital Emergency Departments are places where extreme states of entropy (suffering) are concentrated as the suffering patient expresses a need for, and recruits, external inputs of restorative and transmutative energies."
"Through the act of suffering, humans can be conceived of as being bound together ethically, in that the route of concern for the suffering of others lies in seeing this as similar to the suffering of oneself. "
Katzir-Katchalsky is quoted: "Life is a constant struggle against the tendency to produce entropy by irreversible processes. The synthesis of large and information-rich macromolecules, the formation of intricately structured cells, the development of organisation — all these are powerful anti-entropic forces. But since there is no possibility of escaping the entropic doom imposed upon all natural phenomena under the Second Law of #thermodynamics, living organisms choose the least evil — they produce entropy at a minimal rate by maintaining a steady state."
<< #Ethics consists in readiness to serve the #homeostasis -- temporary reduction of rate of entropy -- of others.
Wow.
So, doctors (or anyone providing a service) address the homeostasis of clients. Management encounters institutional entropy due to energy outflow to clients, and attempts to address that. Over time, a hospital (or any institution) becomes entirely absorbed in strategies to maintain its own homeostasis and that of its upper management and the institutions and investors supplying it energy ostensibly intended to assist the clients. So there is an ethical/unethical tension built into any service system.
Five stars for this dissertation. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ >>
The Entropy of Suffering V1.2 .pages - uws_55187.pdf
https://researchers-admin.westernsydney.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/94911726/uws_55187.pdf
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/116992339665635678
clean, inspect, lubricate, adjust #mantra #entropy #PreventativeMaintenance
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Understanding Entropy Through Probability and Thermodynamics
📰 Original title: What Is Entropy, Really?
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Weird places where I encounter the concept of #entropy
1 Value, according to some theory of economics, is created by rearranging the natural resources, given to us in a special way.
2 Computation,(accoring to #cs ) is also the process of arranging some bits of information, accoring to formulas.
3 There is also the well known biological theory that life is arrangement of matter that beats entropy (see for example "The Animate and the inanimate") -
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2. A Gentle Reckoning with EntropyThe core thread of the book is entropy—the scientific reality that everything we put "in formation" eventually pushes toward randomness and decay, whether it’s an ancient wax cylinder, a digital file, or physical archives. But rather than being cold or clinical, Mullaney treats this realization with immense tenderness. He acknowledges how terrifying it is to watch the physical traces of our lives shift, scatter, or face the threat of disappearing.
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How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information by Thomas S. Mullaney, 2026
A brilliant foray into the nature of information, of history, and of making meaning in the face of death and decay.
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Let's say an artist opts out.
They perform at some venue and an audience member snags a digital source.
The source is 'published' as the AM's work.
Off it goes to AI.
The instant the artist notices, it's already beyond too late.
Contesting the issue will take forever and reversal is not an remedy, being impossible.
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There have been 5 major global extinctions, let’s not make it 6 very soon.
Don’t know what else do, but sign link below?
Unless a large mass of people can agree to take collective action against petrochemicals, an insane arms race, pointless wars and the nonrenewable expropriation of capital, we all die at 60 °C which is 140 °F!
#EarthIsBurning #Entropy #Flooding #Hurricanes #Typhoons #Tornados #CollectiveAction #SustainableEthics #GlobalWarming #ClimateChaos #60CelsiusWeAllDie #140FarenheitWeAllDie #GlobalExtinctions #SaveEarth #StopBanksFinancingEcocide https://action.eko.org/a/banks-don-t-fund-kepco-s-coal-plans?source=clipboard
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Netanyahu, Putin and Trump believe they they can divide up the Earth. At least before they and their tech lords turn on each other, or it into toxic wastelands, but to the victor goes the spoils. Perhaps the most stupid idea conjured up by the history of such wizards, as they are flesh and bones?
Brainwashing and grifting is their trick; to buy the people with their spoils! Heat death and or entropy is what they’ll get! #DivideAndDestroy #NoSpoils #power #HeatDeath #Entropy #Crime #Stupidity #AiCrimeLords #Entropy #HeatDeath #Storms #Floods #Draughts #Disease #TheCriminalWorldOrder #Philosophy #surveillance #Ai #DeathRace #BloodAndGuts #WorldDestroyers #TheRiseOfCults #AiSuperVillains #FoundationIsPrime #EmpiresDie
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“This was not that the subject was simple enough to be explained without mathematics, but rather that it was much too involved to be fully accessible to mathematics.”*…
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But, Philip Ball asks, does it serve a scientific purpose?…
In 1993, a team led by the planetary scientist Carl Sagan tentatively concluded that there is life on Earth. Not much of a deduction, you might think — except that the researchers confined their evidence to observations made by the Galileo spacecraft, which had flown past our planet three years earlier on a looping journey to Jupiter. So great is the transformative power of life that its presence can be detected just from the light and radio waves our planet emits or reflects into space. Today we scan the cosmos for some of these telltale signatures light-years away.
Life leaves a mark, yet even now there’s no scientific consensus about what makes living things so different from inorganic substances like the rocks, gases, and oceans that are the sole components of dead worlds. Many scientists cite properties such as replication or metabolism. Others speak in more abstract terms about the way life is out of thermodynamic equilibrium with its surroundings. But some give another kind of answer. Living organisms are different because they do stuff for reasons.
It’s not enough to say that life is a nonequilibrium organized state through which there’s a constant flux of matter and energy. That description applies to hurricanes, too. But hurricanes just are. Only living entities have goals: to find food, to reproduce, to survive, sometimes simply to experience good things. (Dog owners will recognize that this is not just a human attribute.)
One way to express this idea is to say that living organisms have “agency.” It’s a hotly contested term. Some biologists reject it outright, at least for any organisms except humans, because we decide on our actions with conscious deliberation. (Whether we’re truly the only species to do so is another issue.) Others think that agency is a fundamental attribute of all life. Since there’s no agreed-upon definition of the term, to some extent it can mean whatever you want it to mean. But the debate about biological agency touches on fundamental issues in our understanding of what it means to be alive, because agency evokes a notion that biologists and philosophers have always wrestled with: teleology, the apparent purposiveness of life. If we admit agency into biology, do we open the floodgates to ideas about design, vitalism, or cosmic meaning? Or is it just a recognition of what makes life such a special state of matter?
To me, the notion of agency indeed speaks to our intuitive sense of what makes living things so special: not mere machines pushed around by environment and circumstance. I suspect that aversion to agency betrays a queasiness about confronting life as something more than some kind of genetic program. But there’s danger in the idea, too: It could so easily derail the work of studying the mechanistic explanations of how life works. I’m not looking to either bury or praise agency, but to explore whether it can be a scientifically productive idea…
[Ball unpacks the idea of agency, then reviews both scientific observations and the theories that they have provoked. He concludes…]
… I’m cautiously optimistic about the prospects of uniting such theoretical ideas with biological mechanisms. It seems unlikely to be coincidental, for example, that organisms that seem to show more agency also have molecular pathways that permit more openness to the influence of context and external information.
If we can get a clearer idea of what makes an agent, this could help us to understand how collective goals arise — as they did when multicellular organisms first arose long ago — and how they can break down, as in cancer. What’s more, a proper theory of agency might give us a clearer idea of what’s needed to make genuine artificial agents, not just computers and machines programmed with our own goals, but ones that can formulate their own. We might then also get a clearer idea of the potential benefits and dangers such truly agential machines might bring. But perhaps the most compelling argument for recognizing agency is that it might help us understand what makes life so different — not just humans, but life — that it is able to shape an entire planet in a manner visible from outer space.
Purpose? Goals? On the idea of “biological agency”: “Is Life Just Different?” from @philipcball.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social.
* Erwin Schrödinger in What Is Life? (in which he wrestled, in his way, with Ball’s question, contending that life feeds on negative entropy) Full text here.
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As we wonder why, we might send frustrated birthday greetings to Ernő Rubik; he was born on this date in 1944. An architect and inventor, he created the Rubik’s Cube (in 1974), which has become the world’s best-selling puzzle game, with over half a billion sold.
A Rubik’s Cube consists of 26 small cubes that rotate on a central axis; nine colored cube faces, in three rows of three each, form each side of the cube. After the cube arrangement is randomized (the highest level of entropy), the player must restore order (that’s to say, practice “negative entropy”), returning it to the original condition of faces with matching colors on each side — which is one among 43 quintillion possible configurations.
#agency #biologicalAgency #biology #culture #entropy #ErnőRubik #games #history #Life #PhilipBall #philosophy #puzzles #rubliksCube #Schrödinger #Science #toys -
Entropy is not just luck magic. It is pattern failure, probability pressure, decay, coincidence, ruin, and timing. In the right hands, it is the Sphere of knowing exactly where to push. #entropy
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What Is Time? Mini Universe Created in a Lab Provides Intriguing Answers - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXNom-ev50#Time #SpaceTime #Relativity #Physics #QuantumPhysics #Entropy
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"...principles of physics – including information and entropy – sculpt the evolution of life"
Updating Darwin: Information and #entropy drive the #evolution of life - PMC
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"The entropic production of the Biosphere is ... an emergent property."
In pursuit of the framework behind the biosphere: S-curves, self-assembly and the genetic entropy paradox - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303264720300095 #entropy
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What Your Lawn is Trying to Become - by Anthony Lackey
https://notesontheentropyofform.substack.com/p/what-your-lawn-is-trying-to-become?triedRedirect=true #naturalsystems #entropy
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(PDF) Economies Evolve by Energy Dispersal
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38104807_Economies_Evolve_by_Energy_Dispersal #entropy #MEPP
<< Tl;dr diminishing returns accompany all movement, including economies (as well as ecologies and biological entities). What goes up must come down, usually faster.
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Entropy and Entropy Production: Old Misconceptions and New Breakthroughs
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One of my favourite scientific anecdotes. Equal parts genius, wisdom, and humour. 📚✨
#Neumann #Claude #VonNeumann #ClaudeShannon #JohnVonNeumann #Anecdote #ScientificAnecdote #Entropy #InformationEntropy #InformationTheory
