/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9267399
>polish notation

Somebody explain Calculus in a thorough manner, please and thanks.

>>9080820
no thanks
im a mereological nihilist

>>9033941
>>9034010
forgive me if i still sound retarded after this post. im what you might call a brainlet, i never took the time to learn math. so i only understand theoretical science on a conceptual level. I was never into physics at all until theoretical bio, so i have a glanced over Wikipedia understanding of thermodynamics.
anyways this is what i believe the cutting edge of biology is

first you need to consider what i conceive life to be here>>9033876, note that:(see bottom)

lets do a simple thought experiment .
>imagine life when it first emerged at the cellular level
>now imagine life today
Is that trending towards thermodynamic equilibrium?
no, its the opposite.
Life tends towards maximum complexity. Life turns entropy into enthalpy by giving it meaning and using it to maintain a state far from thermodynamic equilibrium.
while it is true that if you abstracted life as a closed system, that system would eventually begin to trend towards thermodynamic equilibrium. BUT something has to happen first. the system would have to run out of energy I.e die. How can life die? it exists as information and isnt bound to the physical, it reproduces and grows in complexity as constraints are remembered and interpreted into biosemiotic code. Life is an abstract entity with the awesome ability to possess the concrete.

>i consider life to be an actual abstract entity composed of information
>what makes this information special is it caries meaning
>meaning that is represented in the physical world
>this allows for physical beings to emerge from the meaning life caries(auto-catalysis biosemiosis)
>these beings are capable of interpreting information and grow the information life knows