On Jun 16, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Wesley Smith wrote: >>> If things are expanding then they have to get more complex, they encompass >>> more. >> Aside from intuition, what evidence do you have to back this statement >> up? I've seen no justification for this statement so far. > > As I recall, there was a recent Nobel prize that boiled down to: Increase the > energy flowing into a system, and new, more complex, behaviors arise.
Are you thinking of Prigogine's dissipative structures? Nobel laureate in 1977. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc