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60. NON PROFIT 501C3 IN SANTA FE RAILYARD
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP FOR PROJECT-BASED WORK IN
APPLIED COMPLEXITY
HOST MONTHLY CNLS Q-BIOS LECTURE SERIES
FOSTER COLLABORATIONS ACROSS SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
AND ART
65. Do all agents cycle to work?
“a thermodynamic limit cycle can
be advanced as the basic unit of
action of physically autonomous
systems”
Kugler, Kelso &Turvey, 1980, 1982
66. Perform at least one thermodynamic work cycle
Work is the constrained release of energy
Perform work to construct constraints
67. quot;The general struggle for existence of animate beings
is therefore not a struggle for raw materials -
these, for organisms, are air, water and soil, all
abundantly available - nor for energy which exists in
plenty in any body in the form of heat (albeit
unfortunately not transformable), but a struggle for
entropy, which becomes available through the
transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold
earth.quot;
Boltzmann, 1886
68. quot;the only way a living system stays alive, away from
maximum entropy or death is to be continually
drawing from its environment negative entropy. Thus
the devise by which an organism maintains itself
stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly
low level of entropy) really consists in continually
sucking orderliness from its environment.“
Schrödinger,1944
69. “Steam Engines have taught us more about
thermodynamics than thermodynamics has taught
us about steam engines”
- Harold Morowitz
