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Re: The Heat Death of Science
January 28, 2008 by kjellstrom, 1 year 40 weeks ago
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In my view, you describe the evolution of science with an increasing entropy in knowledge.
Likewise, the evolution of DNA resulted in a huge increase in the entropy, "average information", of DNA, represented by millions of different species and biljons of different individuals in certain species. But to day certain species go extinct. And I am not certain that new species arrive at the same speed.
Unfortunately, I have not seen very many textbooks in biology about average information in DNA.
Likewise, I think that knowledge may be overruled by new knowledge and simplified by Occam's razor. So I am not so pessimistic.
Gkm