Re: Can if life effect cosmic development and is a supertask possable?&#

johnnyneoman wrote on Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:58 pm:

> Can life or any physical action effect the future outcome of the universe's structural physical development and final course.
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> Could life drastically change the course of the universe and stop the heat death.
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> I do think life (intelligence) can change many things but can life steer the universe into a different end? Is a supertask impossible?
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> I have just barely grasped "background independence" and it has made me more likely to accept things happening beyond human conception and reality being much larger since everything is a process. Which is saying to me everything is software and there is no hardware.
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> Lastly is there any physical transformation or physical processes that cannot be visually represented? I have been thinking about this for a long time.

Didn't Asimov already answer this quite nicely in "The Last Question"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

Seems to me that at all levels Life is a process that makes small pockets of order out of chaos, but requires an externally generated energy gradient to operate. A biological process can never be 100% efficient, so it will always consume more energy than it can generate.

The question is can a biological process create a non biological process that approaches 100% efficiency, which can then manipulate the universe to make itself sustainable.

Which is the question Asimov answers, in a nice way.

Edward


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