<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Good day, all,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Is anyone considering that current convention analysis/designations of 'entropy' might be incomplete and worthy of further investigation?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I am a General Systems analyst ... dealing with such things as 'complexity', emergence, enaction principles that are currently -different- between non-living (effectively aka . "closed") systems .. and .. living <span>(effectively aka . "open")</span> systems .. and if there is a way to correlate the types more accurately .. where .. the possibility exists that they actually have a -shared- core mechanism for their behaviors and performance attributes~capabilities?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">(sorry for the long question .. there is a lot to corral together and consider simultaneously)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have been looking at an essential adapted definition of entropy ... a 'generalization' .. so to speak ... where it is not so strongly associated with thermodynamics. I am not intimating such a new model has -no- association with thermodynamics .. only that thermodynamics of only -one- ... of -several- possible phenomena and dynamics .. where some other core qualia which is central and key to "entropy" .. can be identified and seen in non-thermodynamic evaluated systems.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I would appreciate any thoughts. I have begun the building of new equations that exactly identify that attribute of entropic factors and especially ... defining "-interactions- between local entropic groupings". [similar to Prigogine's model of 'far from equilibrium' ..but even more general than his equations (i.e. - not limited to chemistry)].</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thank you everyone, for considering my question(s). Looking forward to responses and opinions.....<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">James (Jamie) Rose</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">integrity@prodigy.net</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Minden NV (north NV near Carson City)<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>