On 18 June 2010 08:53, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
The "original" original of the concept
itself is of course
"The Flight of the Bumblebee", with a related concept
being the centipede losing track of it's legs, when it
begins trying to "think through" what it is doing with
them.
The concept of "Information Wants to be Free" has been
authoritatively shown to have roots in thinkers as ancient
as Aristotle. I would guess here too, that the instance
of scientists calculating the amount of energy it took to
keep the bumblebee up in the air, and measuring the
amount of food it actually consumed, is likely not the
earliest form of this paradox.
Not really. All they ever calculated was weather it could glide. It
couldn't. In this they were correct.
--
geni