Richard Ober Hammer on the Thermodynamically-Based Resource-Patterns Model of Life

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Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ciPCY-ir3c


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A Quality Existence

"How do living things seem to defy the second law of thermodynamics (entropy)? Richard Ober Hammer has a theory. Richard and I met in our weekly Meetup in which we are reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and during our chats, there have been comparisons drawn between his theory and aspects of Pirsig’s MoQ, such as levels of emergent development, and the quality which humans and other living things can sense. Richard’s theory shows how groups of “critters” can flourish when they can find appropriate, cooperative behaviors. But such success requires that the critters’ behavior patterns conform, for the purpose of harvesting, to environmental resource patterns. And, here is the kicker, those resource patterns commonly lie outside the perception or knowledge of the critters. Nonetheless we can begin to see how small increments in cooperative behaviors can lead to large and thriving populations."