Re: God's Utility Function
- From: Tim Tyler <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:09:57 -0400 (EDT)
Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
Entropy production within organisms
is rather high, and usually even higher in successful, active organisms than in
those which are barely holding on to life. At least among r-selected organisms.
For K-selected organisms, NS may well lead to minimal entropy production -
which is why I objected to my version of your suggestion.
I tried to think of some organisms which take pains to avoid metabolic
waste
in the short term.
Cacti, sloths, camels, hibernating creatures, seeds with long dormant
cycles -
and strains of the flu virus spring to mind.
The flu virus is on the list since there there is frequency-dependent
selection for small population size: the virus benefits from being
rare.
In my original essay I treated this topic in my
'Burning bright - or burning long?' section, as follows:
``I believe these strategies can usefully be seen as the result of
optimising over different time periods. The first is more short
sighted - while the latter takes a more long term view.''
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