NPPF Commentary Line 209, P. 163

Vincent A. Maeder vmaeder at cycn-phx.com
Thu Oct 9 09:27:30 CDT 2003


> Glenn Scheper wrote:
> Likewise, irreversibility of thermodynamics comes from
> improbability, which arises in statistics of aggregates
> of gas molecules. Of course, metanoia is something like
> the living experience of death; tantra belies retro-PK.

Thank you, Glenn.  This helps seal the solution to a riddle I'd been working
on (my license plate reads "IMPRBBL")  Quantum physics says probability
waves are what create the underlying structure we see in the universe, while
the loss in energy causes disorder.  Chaos theory tells us improbabilities
create complexity out of that basic structure (making
self-aware/self-indulgent life a function of improbability).  V.



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