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...............116 7 . God, the Anthropist Winnie-the-Pooh and Co. ..........................119 8 . The Second Law of Thermodynamics, or The Law of Entropy....126 CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE ORGANIC WORLD AS A MANIFESTATION OF THE ORGANIC FORCE................................133 1. The Causes of the Emergence of Life on Earth.............................135 Creat...

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...f an exemplary or corrupt ethical equilibriums are explored by updating Klitgaard corruption formula along with the presence of information pressure, entropy and cibernetics servomechanisms in digital societies, including alternatives and sistemics approaches for further anti-corruption policies implementation....

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...one another, as they succumb to passivity, self destructive and often heartless nihilism. Stevo lives in a world of casual privilege, acute moral entropy and reckless abandon. The weight of his older brother’s mysterious disappearance begins to permeate through his everyday life. After writing a disturbing school essay he’s put into therapy and given anti depressants. ...

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... beings and once it is created, is no longer subject to death or the law of entropy. It is immortal, and it guarantees immortality to those who know ... ...e one already existing in nature, and is always subject to either death or entropy. In this view, we find an answer to the question of why death an... ...omes a statue); rather they transform a field of energy that is subject to entropy (the marble), into an energy field that is not subject to entropi... ...m that others do not yet understand. Physicists are subject to the laws of entropy and the space-time dimension. Artists go beyond the dimension of ... ... It has conquered not only time, but also death. Perhaps the secret of how entropy can be overcome lies in these two victories. Time and death disso... ...ry existing type of energy. This energy field is not subject to the law of entropy, and it continuously receives and emits energy that either partia...

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...use it is a type of life that is no longer subject to the law of death and entropy. Not every populace has a soul or is capable of creating one fo... ... an artistic statue), or rather they transform an energy field, subject to entropy (marble) into an energy field that goes beyond entropic dissipati... ...mple the ability to light a fire, will always produce ingenious results. Entropy means that fire can never go back and re-ignite itself once it bur... ...ns that fire can never go back and re-ignite itself once it burns out. But entropy can do nothing against the invention of being able to light a fire... ...at others have not yet discovered. The physicist is subject to the law of entropy and the space-time dimension. 17 The artist goes beyond the sp... ...orious over not only time but also death. Perhaps the secret of overcoming entropy lies in these two victories. Time and death dissolve everything,... ...s, an energy that transcends time and an energy that transcends the law of entropy. These are two more essential characteristics of a work of art. ... ... comes to an end. The reign of continual creativity is born. The reign of entropy comes to an end and the reign of inexhaustible energy, the type ... ...The type of life created by an artist is immortal. It wins over the laws of entropy and death. What is the artist’s secret, which makes him or her...

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... (of whatever source) will be abundant and predictably available would suffer from entropy, both physical and mental. The vast majority of human ef... ...nd Ethnic Tensions The Emerging Water Wars Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy Return Fact and Truth The extent of confusion that r...

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...nal Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 34 65-75. 66. Kosko, B., (1986) “Fuzzy Entropy and Conditioning,” Information Sciences, 40 165- 174. 67. K...

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...________ 62 COPIED ____________ 62 SINE QUA NON ______ 62 THE STUDENT (I) ___ 62 THE STUDENT (II) ___ 62 VERY WELL-KNOWN __________________ 62 ENTROPY __________ 63 BRIDE _____________ 63 WRECK ____________ 63 INDIFFERENCE _____ 63 CURSE _____________ 63 EXHIBITIONIST _____ 63 ABYSS _____________ 63 PROXIMITY ________ 63 EXTREME FAR AWAY __________________ 6...

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... . . . . 159 6.2.3 Fusion rules . . . . . . . . . 161 6.3 Entropic approach of the rule definition . . . . . . . 162 6.3.1 Independent sources and entropy . . . . . . . 163 6.3.2 Definition of a new rule for the DSmT . . . . . . 163 6.3.3 Feasibility of the rule . . . . . . . . . 164 6.3.4 Generalizations . . . . . . . . . 164 6.4 Implementation and properties . . ....

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.... . . 327 15.3.2 The minimum conflict approach . . . 327 15.3.3 Blackman’s approach . . . . 328 15.3.4 Tchamova’s approach . . . . 328 15.3.5 The entropy approaches . . . . 329 15.3.6 Schubert’s approach . . . . 331 15.4 DSmT approaches for BAP . . . . 333 15.5 Monte-Carlo simulations . . . . 334 15.6 Conclusion . . . . . 335 15.7 References . . . . . 336 16 Neut...

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...ICS 324 FIRST LAW - THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY 324 SECOND LAW - THE CONVERSION OF HEAT ENERGY INTO MECHANICAL WORK 324 THIRD LAW - THE ENTROPY PRINCIPLE 324 NICOLAS LEONARD CARNOT (1796 - 1832) FRENCH PHYSICIST 326 GUSTAVE GASPARD DE CORIOLIS (1792 - 1843) FRENCH PHYSICIST 328 BENOIT PIERRE CLAPEYRON (1799 - 1864) FRENCH ENGINEER 329 JAMES PRESCOT...

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...formula . . . . . . . 91 3.5.2 Advantages of DSmP . . . . . . . 92 3.6 PIC metric for the evaluation of the transformations . . . 95 3.6.1 Shannon entropy . . . . . . . . 95 3.6.2 The probabilistic information content . . . . 96 3.7 Examples and comparisons on a 2D frame . . . . . 96 3.7.1 Example 1: Shafer’s model with a general source . . . 96 3.7.2 Example 2: Sha...

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..................................... 82 Sorin Adam Matei, Kyoungrae Oh, Robert Bruno: Collaboration and Communication in Online Environments: A Social Entropy Approach .............. 83 Collaboration and Communication in Online Environments: A Social Entropy Approach ..............................................................................................................

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...ntum hapter 8 : Parking in Hilbert’s Space. (94.) hapter 9 : The Flow of Entropy. (108.) hapter 10 : The Case for Other Realities. (118) hapter 1... ...-------- 106 107 9. The Flow of Entropy. For the next leg of our admittedly involved journey, I need t... ...ere. Secondly, the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that the entropy of an isolated system increases with time. So, what is entro... ... 108 kettle is more ordered, or organised. This is said to possess lower entropy. However, when the kettle is boiled, the steam which issues ... ...ordered state, much less tightly organised. This is said to possess higher entropy. Moreover, this process is irreversible in the physical real... ...physical realm we inhabit. The process moves only one way – towards higher entropy. The universe is moving towards a state of higher entropy al... ...tely relaxed. This completely wound down state is thermal equilibrium, and entropy is the expression of the winding down process. High Entropy = ... .... This metaphorical spring winding down by the drive towards higher entropy and thermal equilibrium is the engine which drives every process... ...omagnetic radiation to be spread in a higher state of disorder, or higher entropy, in an attempt to warm up slightly a cold universe. 109 Ev...

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...decison maker’s preferences (Abbas, 2002). Abbas proposed a 14 “maximum entropy utility”on the preference behavior of a decison maker by proposing ... ... whose utiltiy density function (or utility increment vector) has maximum entropy subject to the limited known preference constraints. There... ... receiving much current intellectual attention is that of temperature and entropy and its purported economical analog – price and utility (Foley, 19... ...ty assignment denoted as m (.) = m1 (.) ⊕ m2 (.) that maximizes the joint entropy of the two information sources (Smarandache 2000; Dezert, 2001). ... ...per we have attempted to extend the classical utility theory applying the entropy measure of information (Shannon, 1948; Jaynes, 1957), which by itse... ...in an economic context and the correspondences do show that thermodynamic entropy and economic utility are related concepts sharing the same formal ... ... framework. Utility is said to arise from that component of thermodynamic entropy whose change is due to irreversible transformations. This is the s... ...hange is due to irreversible transformations. This is the standard Carnot entropy given by dS = δQ/T where S is the entropy measure, Q is the therma... ...s chapter however we will keep to the information theoretic definition of entropy rather than the purely thermodynamic one. Underlying premi...

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...exity, Cluj-Napoca, 1987, 85-90. [6] Burillo, Lopez P., Bustince Sola H., Entropy on intuitionistic fuzzy sets and on interval- values fuzzy set... ...sion on the justification of Dempster’s rule of combination from the information entropy viewpoint based on the measurement projection and balance prin... ...tiveness of the Dempster’s rule in such kind of example based on an information entropy argument has already been presented in [66]. Conditional B... ...nts and . 4.4.2 Justification of the new rule of combination from information entropy Let’s consider two bodies of evidence and characterized respec... ...ook for the optimal rule of combination, i.e. the bpa which maximizes the joint entropy of the two information sources. The justification for the Maxen... ... for, can be expressed as Thus, the solution of the maximisation of the joint entropy is obtained by choosing (56) Since it may exist several combin... ...th the new rule of combination expressed previously. 4.4.3 Numerical example of entropy calculation We present here a very simple numerical example of... ...ion of entropies of individual sources of informations and the combined (joint) entropy of combined sources. Let’s consider the simple frame of discer... ... conditional entropies and are given by [9] Therefore, one has and The joint entropy is directly obtained from the cells of the fusion table and on...

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... PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re-Visited II. Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy III. The Complexity of Simplicity IV. Bestowed Existenc... ...mmetry). Read Other Essays: Psychophysics Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy Superstring and Membrane Theories Return Negentropic ... ... Superstring and Membrane Theories Return Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy The Second Law of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual e... ...of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of physical closed systems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precisely such a... ...d, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, by definition, statistical entropy tends to decrease. This is the orthodoxy. Personally, I ... ...ulatory mechanism), Nature causes humans to begin to internalize and assimilate the Entropy that they themselves generate. This is done through a s... ...ly selected. We can assume that only order-increasing Universes do not succumb to entropy and death (the weak hypothesis). It could even be argued... ... the case, statistically evenly-scattered events would have led to an increase in entropy (thermodynamic laws are the offspring of statistical mec... ...the events selected by its collapse. postulation) of dark energy seems to restore entropy on the scale of the entire Universe. Actually, the trait...

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... idea of entropic balance of spatiotemporality. Logically, in view of the entropy* equilibrium, it is necessary that the spatiotemporality includes ... ...ropy* equilibrium, it is necessary that the spatiotemporality includes an entropy different of that associated with matter. This entropy of another ... ...rreversible phenomenon, under natural conditions, and that the increase of entropy is inevitable since it is assumed to be achieved under the conditi... ...ization, foreshadowed by the MESER concept does not lead to the change of entropy, since in this case the phenomenon is obviously reversible and tak... ...nders necessary the evaluation of its opportuneness. The certain rise of entropy to unsuspected values supposes the compensating modification, to t... ...l isn′t unable to control the effects of the compensating modification of entropy from the anti-material reality. The current level of knowledge on ... ...uld annihilate reciprocally and release a great quantity of energy. Pg. entropy- thermodynamical measurement which characterizes the physical syst...

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...on- boosts. This could reveal very important information about Black-holes Entropy and Holography. C. Castro. On Dual Phase-Space Relativity, the Mach... ...s con- structed in [18, 19]; the logarithmic corrections to the black hole entropy based on the geometry of Clifford space (in shortC-space) were obta... ... bits, bears the same functional form as the Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy, with the upshot that one recovers, in a natural way, the logarithm... ... recovers, in a natural way, the logarithmic corrections to the black-hole entropy as well, if one identifes the number of Clifford-bits with the numb... .... Perhaps the most important consequence of this latter view of black hole entropy is the possibility that there is a ground state of quantum spacetim... ...on- boosts. This could reveal very important information about Black-holes Entropy and Holography. The logarithmic cor- rections to the Black-Hole Are... ...tropy and Holography. The logarithmic cor- rections to the Black-Hole Area-Entropy relation were ob- tained directly from Clifford-algebraic methods i... ...., Pavˇ siˇ c M. Phys. Letters, v. B539, 2002, 133. 21. Castro C. Jour. of Entropy, v. 3, 2001, 12–26. Castro C. and Granik A. Foundations of Physics,... ...hic hypothesis. arXiv: hep-th/0303105. 103. Da Cruz W. Fractal von Neumann entropy. arXiv: cond- mat/0201489. Fractons and fractal statistics. arXiv: ...

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... processes" as contrasted with illness which is "a decrease in order (=increase of entropy) and in the efficiency of processes". While being factua... ...cit value-judgements. For instance, why should we prefer life over death? Order to entropy? Efficiency to inefficiency? Health and sickness are dif... ...f processes" as contrasted with illness which is "a decrease in order (=increase of entropy) and in the efficiency of processes". While being factua... ...icit value-judgments. For instance, why should we prefer life over death? Order to entropy? Efficiency to inefficiency? Health and sickness are dif...

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...of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of physical closed systems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precisely such a... ...d, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, by definition, statistical entropy tends to decrease. This is the orthodoxy. Personally, I ... ...latory mechanism), Nature causes humans to begin to internalize and assimilate the Entropy that they themselves generate. This is done through a s... ...ly selected. We can assume that only order-increasing Universes do not succumb to entropy and death (the weak hypothesis). It could even be argued... ...n the case, statistically evenly-scattered events would have led to an increase in entropy (thermodynamic laws are the offspring of statistical mec... ... death is the absence of forces. Death is, therefore, also not an entropic climax. Entropy is an isotropic, homogeneous distribution of energy. Dea... ...they are actually the two poles of a dichotomy. So, death, as opposed to inertia or entropy, is not something that modern physics is fully equipped ... ...Death: LIFE is the potential, possessed by organic originals, to create (=to fight entropy by increasing information and order), using their own so... ...f processes" as contrasted with illness which is "a decrease in order (=increase of entropy) and in the efficiency of processes". While being factua...

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...of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of physical closed systems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precisely such a... ...d, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, by definition, statistical entropy tends to decrease. This is the orthodoxy. Personally, I ... ...latory mechanism), Nature causes humans to begin to internalize and assimilate the Entropy that they themselves generate. This is done through a s... ...ly selected. We can assume that only order-increasing Universes do not succumb to entropy and death (the weak hypothesis). It could even be argued... ...n the case, statistically evenly-scattered events would have led to an increase in entropy (thermodynamic laws are the offspring of statistical mec... ... death is the absence of forces. Death is, therefore, also not an entropic climax. Entropy is an isotropic, homogeneous distribution of energy. Dea... ...they are actually the two poles of a dichotomy. So, death, as opposed to inertia or entropy, is not something that modern physics is fully equipped ... ...Death: LIFE is the potential, possessed by organic originals, to create (=to fight entropy by increasing information and order), using their own so... ...f processes" as contrasted with illness which is "a decrease in order (=increase of entropy) and in the efficiency of processes". While being factua...

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...that does not exist in nature and that will never be subject to death or to entropy, nor is it subject to the laws of gravity that pertain to the spa...

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...hes us that life and motion are engendered by an irregular distribution of energy. Entropy - an even distribution of energy - equals death and stas... ...y force whatsoever is postulated. Death is, therefore, also not an entropic climax. Entropy is an isotropic, homogeneous distribution of energy. Dea... ...tical - they are the two poles of a dichotomy. So, Death, as opposed to inertia or entropy, is not something that modern physics is fully equipped ... ...ath: LIFE is the potential, possessed by organic originals, to create (=to fight entropy by increasing information and order), using their own so...

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...d! Any system or substance has a degree of disorder (measured by the entropy), a degree of order, and a degree of order and disorder in the s... ...ov. 10-11, 1995, 29-30. 135 [21] Burillo, Lopez P., Bustince Sola H., Entropy on intuitionistic fuzzy sets and on interval- values fuzzy sets, Fu...

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...atsoever is postulated. Death is, therefore, also not an entropic climax. Entropy is an isotropic, homogeneous distribution of energy. Death is the ... ...y are the two poles of a dichotomy. So, Death, as opposed to inertia or entropy, is not something that modern physics is fully equipped to deal wi... ...IFE is the potential, possessed by organic originals, to create (=to fight entropy by increasing information and order), using their own software. Su...

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...nd, once it is created, it is no longer subject to death nor to the law of entropy. It is immortal and it guarantees immortality to those who know h... ...ause it is a type of life that is no longer subject to the law of death and entropy”… … “We call a Person someone who is capable of loving him or ...

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...hes us that life and motion are engendered by an irregular distribution of energy. Entropy - an even distribution of energy - equals death and stas...

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...t of the antiliterature that lies in the ephemeral writing and the lexical entropy become a warning, in their development of as much paradoxism. T...

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... facilitated by conspiracy theories, so common in closed societies. The increase of entropy inevitably leads to stagnation and possibility of implos...

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...Social Balance Pg 1131 The Dynamic of Positive and Negative Energy Pg 1138 Entropy and Energy Pg 1141 The Triality of a Balance Existence Pg 11... ...much energy vibrated billions of years ago; to how much energy vibrates now. Entropy is what Science has noticed as a very gradual tendency of Ener... ...they can find. And once they find something they like. They eat all of it. Entropy and Energy Energy changes its form by slowing down, or speed... ...n of all genetic experience into instinctive wisdom; is merely the process of entropy… or the re-combining of energy into larger base units… or the r...

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...contemplated the exhaustion of the coal fields and indeed, the eventual exhaustion of all usable energy in the universe, foreshadowing our concept of entropy. This book has been consistently among the Top 100 E-Books published by Project Gutenberg. Summary by Mark F. Smith....