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120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Energy Isn't a Bull in a China Shop, Right?
If i dump energy into a system and just give it to parts of the system in no particular way, i'm going to be activating bunch of different random rearrangements in different parts. And in a living thing, we call that damage. So if you start doing the more random exploration of the space of possibilities there, you're going to stop being a frog, or you're gonna end up as a pile of carbon with no particular providence. If you have a patterned input, such as a particular frequency, and you take a disordered set of interacting pieces that have lots of different possible ways of liking to move with the environment, depending on what corner of their configuration space they
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