Recent content by kcren

Yes, if what you described happened in the absence of anything else, entropy would decrease in that puddle for the organization of a single cell out of nothing. But the "puddle" is earth, not a small area on a sea shore (which even then would need to be 100% closed off from everything else to...

Hello everyone. Quickly introducing myself. I'm a physics BS who got lured into the high tech industry at WordPerfect Corp, loved programming, worked on Space Shuttle and GPS, then went into business, finally renounced programming and became a full-time management consultant. Now I solve the...

I strongly question that assumption, even though I've said it before myself. We have to be careful: a basic single-celled creature is certainly less complex than a greatly improved single-celled creature that descends from it. But they are not the same system (i.e. they are not the same atoms...