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  • On this planet (and probably a trillion others as well) Life is “anti-entropic.”

    for your entertainment -- a wider perspective 2008

  • Thus the processes for fixation of nitrogen from the air, processes for the extraction of magnesium or other elements from the sea, and processes for the desalinization of sea water are anti-entropic in the material sense, though the reduction of material entropy has to be paid for by inputs of energy and also inputs of information, or at least a stock of information in the system.

    The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth (historical) 2007

  • In the case of material systems, we can distinguish between entropic processes, which take concentrated materials and diffuse them through the oceans or over the earth's surface or into the atmosphere, and anti-entropic processes, which take diffuse materials and concentrate them.

    The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth (historical) 2007

  • A Defence of Poetry, and which also, in fact, echoes Johannes Kepler's earlier, uniquely original discovery of the inherently anti-entropic principle of universal gravitation.

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

  • In all cases, it is the relatively anti-entropic level of action which is the primary determinant of progress or entropy of the economic system as a whole.

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

  • The great Russian Academician V.I. Vernadsky's central achievement is to be summarized as his contribution to the notion that all aspects of the universe are creative, which is to say anti-entropic, whether the lithosphere, the biosphere, or the noösphere, but, that, among all of these, only the human mind is actually,

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

  • "The Second Law of Thermodynamics" as introduced by Rudolf Clausius, et al. From the standpoint of any competent physical economist, the entire universe must be considered as a whole as essentially anti-entropic, as Albert Einstein's characterization of Kepler's discovery implies: the universe is implicitly finite, but, because this involves a general principle of universal anti-entropy, is never bounded.

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

  • Contrary to fools and scoundrels such as the professional poisoner Aristotle, the universe is essentially anti-entropic, and so is the voluntary capacity uniquely specific to the human individual will.

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

  • Nature itself is ruthlessly anti-entropic on this account, but only the human individual has been shown to exert that capability by personal individual will, as this is done in the act of discovery of a true universal physical principle which is then employed to inform relevant human behavior.

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

  • So it is, in all cases of a scientifically competent reading of the meaning expressed to kindred effects by crucial juxtapositions giving arise to true, intrinsically anti-entropic notions of universal principle in our experience of the universe.

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

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