Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
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The Problem With Self-Organize Processes
The world tends to self-organize and that's one of the terms we use, self-organization. The most trivial example of this is probably a whirlpool that forms in your bathtub when you pull the plug. If you were to constantly disturb that whirlpool, say by your hand messing it up all the time, actually the tub would drain slightly slower. When they dissipate energy quite rapidly or as they approach more rapid ways to dissipate energy, they become more orderly. That is where there was once chaos, there becomes more orderly activity.
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