[lit-ideas] Re: Flipping the Bird At ID [was Suck My Panda's Thumb]

I recommend Eric Schneider and Dorion Sagan's Into the Cool : Energy flow, thermodynamics, and life, Chicago : U. of Chicago Press, 2005. Following the biologist Stuart Kaufmann (Investigations, OUP 2002), they understand life as a self-organizing system that arises spontaneously in order to reduce gradients. See http://www.intothecool.com/ and especially the authors' blog at http://www.intothecool.com/blog/.

Thanks to Mike for posting this excellent site. For those interested in a more speculative reading of the same understanding of life, I would recommend Ken Wilbur's _A Brief History of Everything_.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570627401/ref=ase_daibaizanchoboze/104-7626331-7936712

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