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Many thanks for the helpful reply. I found your analogies helpful, and I
understand why you are focusing on your book, not papers. What is the
projected publication date of that book?
> > In some general sense, if it is the energy required for the present state,
> > then I may begin to catch on. We were indeed supplying a lot of "energy"
> > in the sense of mental and emotional effort to the task of figuring out
> > what and how we were going to be. We indeed were fortunate to have only
> > the most limited (but clear) set of external constraints, giving us
> > relatively large amounts of freedom within which to work.
>
> You are almost correct in your catching. But please remember that you
> cannot swop energy and entropy because they are different quantities.
> Thus you cannot use the word energy as you have used it above. If you
> definitely want to use the word energy, then you should you have written:
> " In some general sense, if it is the FORMATIVE ASPECT OF THE energy
> required for the present state, .....".
I didn't understand if what we were doing was adding entropy or energy;
that is, if we were maintaining the present structure or enabling the
future. If I recall, it sounded like you were suggesting we were adding
entropy, but you also say that free energy is what determines future
development, and it felt like we were adding energy to change the future.
I think I'm close to understanding more, but I've got another threshold to
cross. Further comments might help me.
Thanks for your assistance along the way.
Bill
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