Re: The Einstein issue of Discover Magazine, syntropy

[Judith Rosen <***>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "John M" <***>
To: <***>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [ROSEN] The Einstein issue of Discover Magazine, syntropy


> Judith, just be nice and careful. Antonella seemingly made no connection
to
> RR (if she ever heard about him) and "Italians" (as all of us) are
> chauvinistic about their national heroes, especially if they published so
> early. A 'strongly informing' statement could push her in denial and we
> don't need strengthening of the oppositional camp.
> *
> The topic is 'out' for me: I am opposed to the artefact "entropy" so the
> inverse of it is no joy for me either.
> *
> The 2nd law is the product of 'sweat' to explain premature observations
> during an age of flimsy information about the world (eg. it preceded the
> RR-ideas <G>) and the subsequent epistemic enrichment resulted in
amendments
> of the sacrosanct "law" with its
> prodigy:called 'entropy' 2+ centuries ago. Everything was 'fitted' into
this
> view (and matched to its applied math).
> No subsequent sci. establishment allowed a fresh (basic) look.
>
> This (*) is my opinion and I don't defend it. Like it or leave it.
>
> Cheers
>
> John M
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judith Rosen" <***>
> To: <***>
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 9:25 AM
> Subject: Re: The Einstein issue of Discover Magazine, syntropy
>
>
> > Luigi Fantappie's "syntropy" definitely does sound like a way to descibe
> > what happens in Anticipatory systems....
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