Computers made of water, wind and wood... may be bubbling, sighing or quietly growing without our suspicion that such activities are tantamount to a turmoil of computation whose best description is itself. -- A. K. Dewdney, Computer Recreations [0]
I don’t think that’s what they’re saying. They’re saying both a bathtub’s whirlpool and an organism’s energy consumption are examples of methods to increase entropy and both of them may emerge specifically because of the universe’s general tendency toward higher entropy.
