Thermodynamics, information and life revisited, part I: 'To be or entropy'

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 273-295

  Corning, Peter A ^a   Kline, Stephen Jay ^b  

^a Inst for the Stud of Complex Syst   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Entropy; Evolution; Information; Negentropy; Synergy; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032116932     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1743(199807/08)15:4<273::aid-sres200>3.3.co;2-2     Document Type: Article

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