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A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind

By Jennifer Ouellette
April 3, 2014
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Support is growing for a decades-old physics idea suggesting that localized episodes of disordered brain activity help keep the overall system in healthy balance.

Jeremy England
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A New Physics Theory of Life

By Natalie Wolchover
January 22, 2014
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An MIT physicist has proposed the provocative idea that life exists because the law of increasing entropy drives matter to acquire lifelike physical properties.


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