Re: God's Utility Function
- From: Tim Tyler <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:38:09 -0400 (EDT)
Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
"Tim Tyler" <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gd7rd9$grr$1@=darwin.ediacara.org...
1@=3D"Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmene...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Tim Tyler" <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:gco1gu$1bbn$=
It does nothing to explain why the *rate of entropy production* shouldSee:
be maximized (and maximized only in *some* complex systems but
minimized in some other (slightly simpler) ones)
Maximum entropy production and the fluctuation theorem - R C Dewar 2005
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0305-4470/38/21/L01/
[...]
I'm familiar with Dewar's work, though I don't claim to completely unders=tand it.
Here is the specific bit of that document that relates to how
Prigogine's
principle of minimum entropy production fits in:
``As noted after equation (22), Prigogine's principle of minimum
entropy
production [5] can be interpreted within the MaxEnt formalism as a
special
case of the behaviour of the dissipation function D(=EB) under
variations in
=EB that are restricted to the plane =F0(c*). Maximum dissipation is a
more
general result which describes the behaviour of D(=EB) under all
possible
variations in =EB permitted by the imposed constraints and thus
represents
a physical selection principle under given constraints. MEP applies
both
close to and far from equilibrium.''
- http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0305-4470/38/21/L01/
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