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David Snoke on "Maxwell’s Demon" and Information Processing

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On an episode of ID the Future, physicist David Snoke concludes his discussion of information, including biological information, in the light of physics.

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He describes the implications of the “Maxwell’s demon” thought experiment and asks about the probability of an information-processing system appearing spontaneously in nature — say, one that sorts rocks on the Moon.

Image: Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17, on the lunar surface, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

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