Peter A. Corning <Thermodynamics, Information, and Life Revisited>

Thermodynamics, Information, and Life Revisited
Part One -- "To Be Or Entropy"

Peter A. Corning, Ph.D.
Institute for the Study of Complex Systems
119 Bryant Street, Suite 212
Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA

Phone: (650) 325-5717
Fax: (650) 325-3775
Email: pacorning@complexsystems.org

and

Stephen Jay Kline
Woodard Professor of Science, Technology, and Society,
and of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305 USA

© SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE 15:273-295 (1998)

"When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."

Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll), Through the Looking Glass

Thermodynamics, Information, and Life Revisited
Part Two -- "Thermoeconomics" and "Control Information"

Peter A. Corning, Ph.D.
Institute for the Study of Complex Systems
119 Bryant Street, Suite 212
Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA

Phone: (650) 325-5717
Fax: (650) 325-3775
Email: pacorning@complexsystems.org

and

Stephen Jay Kline
Woodard Professor of Science, Technology, and Society,
and of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305 USA

© SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE 15:453-482 (1998)

"There is measure in everything."

Beatrice (W. Shakespeare), Much Ado About Nothing