dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky) (05/10/85)
[] Dan Boskovich writes: > There are systems which do manifest an increasing degree of comlexity. > These are open systems and draw on external sources of energy. However, > merely having an open system and energy available from the sun does > not automatically generate higher order in that system . . . > . . . there are certain conditions which must be satisfied > to cause any finite system to advance to a higher degree of order. > > No system shows an increasing order unless it also possesses a specific > program to direct its growth and a complex mechanism to convert the > suns energy into specific work. Well, I don't want to see Webster's definition for `program', so I will refrain from asking you to define it rigorously. Instead let me just ask, who or what programs the formation of snowflakes? Isaac Dimitrovsky