On 18 June 2010 08:53, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> The "original" original of the concept itself is of course >> "The Flight of the Bumblebee", with a related concept >> being the centipede losing track of it's legs, when it >> begins trying to "think through" what it is doing with >> them. >> > > The concept of "Information Wants to be Free" has been > authoritatively shown to have roots in thinkers as ancient > as Aristotle. I would guess here too, that the instance > of scientists calculating the amount of energy it took to > keep the bumblebee up in the air, and measuring the > amount of food it actually consumed, is likely not the > earliest form of this paradox.
Not really. All they ever calculated was weather it could glide. It couldn't. In this they were correct. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
