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Re:Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips by selestify on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:38AM (#22847256)
Living things are low-entropy internally, but produce higher entropy externally than would have been without life.
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Re:Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips by monadic2 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:22PM (#22852569)
Hmm, I don’t follow the comparison. How could, for instance, the sun use “life” to generate more entropy than it already does?
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Re:Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips by hordeallergy on Sunday April 12, 2020 @09:53AM (#22848248)
To some degree depending on how productive they are externally, eg bee vs fox.
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