NP mind thermodynamics: book review

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 18 11:36:16 CST 2003


" [...] The major driving force behind this model is
the laws of thermodynamics – and minds or intelligence
systems, a general description from the sensory
systems of E. Coli to the human mind, are described as
cost/benefit energy economising systems combating the
threat of entropy. Of course, all evolutionists are
aware of the need to consider energy – but whether
this needs to be reduced to physics is less obvious. I
do not believe it explains anything new or more
profound. [...] "


 Human Nature Review  2003 Volume 3: 24-35 ( 17
January )

<http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/paradigm.html>

Essay Review

An Alternative Paradigm After All?
By
Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair

A review of The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness
and the New Science of the Self 
by Peggy La Cerra & Roger Bingham
New York: Harmony Books (2002)



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