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| Here we explore how a fundamental organizational principle can
contribute to our understanding of life and its meaning. We start from
the observation that the universe is composed of a vast collection of
discrete systems, i.e. systems that are composed of distinguishable
entities. All discrete systems have two co-existent sets of properties
only one of which is dependent on meaning. A time-honored exam-
ple is the book, a discrete system wherein the meaning of the words
permits communication from author to reader whilst simultaneously
the relative frequencies of the words fall into a consistent mathemat-
ical pattern regardless of the book or the language. We suggest that
this mathematical pattern (an emergent property that is independent
of both meaning and mechanism) is shared by all discrete systems
whether physical or biological in nature. The ideas discussed here
are developments of published arguments rooted in information the-
ory and statistical mechanics and we note numerous examples that
constitute empirical tests of its predictions. If the theoretical develop-
ment presented here is correct it has implications for the meaning of
life and it also leads to the conclusion that what we perceive as gross
inequality is an emergent and essentially inevitable property of life.
| As summarily rejected by the Journal of Not as Controversial as that thank you very much. To read the reviews you would think we had offered to empty a skip in their coffee room. "A closed mind is a dying mind" - Edna Furber. | 8 |
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