| Saturday, July 10, 2004 |
 | This is a test. I am testy.
6 Comments:
Is it that test of the month? :)
Pretty much covers it. The lovely and talented Matt was playing around with my blog, primarily to put in comments. I'm not saying there's anything *wrong* with having another man touching your blog, but it's a funny feeling...
O the possibilities...
And what's more, while I was playing, I teased out a little syndication feed too (http://www.venusberg.org/atom.xml). You're right, it does feel a little dirty.
We're so obsessed with entropy, with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, that it's all downhill from here. If you get enough particles, they all behave the same. They diffuse. They ripple. They settle down. The heat death of the universe. Entropy. From order comes disorder. A mathematical certainty. Nonsense. Given even more particles, even more time, patterns will form accidentally. Some patterns will disappear. But some patterns will contain feedback loops. Will autocreate. Autopoiesis. A self-sustaining system. Over two billion years and a world of particles, why not? Entropy first, autopoeisis next. Then autopoeisis++. From the world of matter, matter that is capable of patterning emerges. Of communication. Of reproduction. Given enough matter, enough particles, enough random effects making combinations of those particles, it's inevitable that the right combination of patterning and feedback loops will emerge. Given enough time. From matter, information. DNA. Then information combines and combines to make matter, again, matter which can move around and not leave ghosts behind, like rocks. Like us. Matter that can eat. Can consume. Can make serial from the parallel. Destructive and creative all in one. We are transformers. What I didn't realise is that it could also happen the other way round.
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