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I misspoke; what I meant to say was:
VN's works refuse to increase their entropy, in as much the critics try, and try to break away from any imposed notion of closed system
Sorry,
George
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> May our esteemed Editors permit me casual remark that VN's works
> refuse to decrease their entropy, in as much the critics try,
> and break away from any imposed notion of closed system. He
> certainly does not belong to "popular" literature.
>
> - George Shimanovich
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> >Usually in "popular science"
> articles and books "closed" is understood as closed in space,
> and this in fact is a dangerous shift of notions (dangerous
> for any proof). ... Observable effect may be decreasing enthropy.
> >
> >Possible objection is that if we would be able to calculate
> >the "full enthropy" it will increase. But we don't know how
> >many structural levels there are, and to an infinite system
> >the calculus doesn't apply.
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VN's works refuse to increase their entropy, in as much the critics try, and try to break away from any imposed notion of closed system
Sorry,
George
----- Original Message -----
> May our esteemed Editors permit me casual remark that VN's works
> refuse to decrease their entropy, in as much the critics try,
> and break away from any imposed notion of closed system. He
> certainly does not belong to "popular" literature.
>
> - George Shimanovich
>
> >Usually in "popular science"
> articles and books "closed" is understood as closed in space,
> and this in fact is a dangerous shift of notions (dangerous
> for any proof). ... Observable effect may be decreasing enthropy.
> >
> >Possible objection is that if we would be able to calculate
> >the "full enthropy" it will increase. But we don't know how
> >many structural levels there are, and to an infinite system
> >the calculus doesn't apply.
> .
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