Intelligent Design
Physics, Earth & Space
David Snoke on "Maxwell’s Demon" and Information Processing
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.