[ExI] Entropy, life and intelligence

[Bill Hibbard]

OOPS, forgot link to explanatory article:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-theory-of-life-20170726/

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017, Bill Hibbard wrote:

> In the past I've posted these links:
>
> https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0910/0910.2621.pdf
> http://www.helsinki.fi/~aannila/arto/natprocess.pdf
>
> to the work of Arto Annila about the relation
> between entropy and life (and hence intelligence).
>
> Here is some recent work by Jeremy England:
>
> Spontaneous fine-tuning to environment in
> many-species chemical reaction networks
> Jordan M. Horowitz and Jeremy L. England
> PNAS 2017 114 (29) 7565-7570
>
> Self-Organized Resonance during Search of a Diverse
> Chemical Space
> Tal Kachman, Jeremy A. Owen, and Jeremy L. England
> Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 038001 – Published 21 July 2017
>
> Detailed analysis of how an external energy source
> can drive chemical systems to non-equilibrium states.
>
>