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Extropy
This nOde last updated December 1st, 2001 and is permanently morphing...
(9 Ik (Wind) / 0 Mak - 12.19.8.14.2)

"As entropy increases, the universe, and all closed systems in the universe, tend naturally to deteriorate and lose their distinctiveness, to move from the least to the most probable state,  from a state of organization and differentiation in which distinctions  and forms exist, to a state of chaosand sameness. In Gibbs' universe order is least probable, chaos most probable. But while the universe  as a whole, tends to run down, there are local enclaves of whose  direction seems opposed to that of the universe at large and in which  there is a limited and temporary tendency for organization to  increase. Life finds its home in these enclaves. It is with this point  of view at its core that the new science of Cybernetics began its  development."

- Norbert Wiener 

"As communicators (of any type) and as communicatees (of any  type), about all that we can do, as Norbert Wiener suggest in  _The Human Use of Human Beings_ (1954), is to try to create  "islands of decreasing entropy," where messages retain or gain, rather than lose, data."

• opposite of entropy.
• _Primitives And Extropians_ essay by Hakim Bey
• Extropy Institute (EXI)
• Max More, founder.
• _Extropy_ - magazine
• Immortality through technology
• cryogenics
• uploading
• time travel
• Transhumanism

Extropy, according to the official Extropian Principles (version 2.5), is "a measure of intelligence, information, energy, vitality, experience, diversity, opportunity, and capacity for growth." Extropianism, then, is "the philosophy that seeks to increase extropy."

The principles themselves are five in number: Boundless Expansion, Self-Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, Intelligent Technology, and Spontaneous Order. They make up the handy Extropian acronym: BEST DO IT SO!
  

The thinkers who have best explored the metaphysical implications of this idea are neither mystics nor information scientists. Rather, they have been science fiction writers such as Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, and Michael Moorcock. The essence of this mystical view could be summarized as follows: the universe is a living, self-evolving, multidimensional system. Where the flow of information is restricted and narrowed (closed systems), entropy and degeneration set in; within open systems which receive energy and information transfers from outside, "dissipative structures" actually expel entropy, raise improbability, and promote complexity); the importance of information is ultimately to make the universe self-aware and overcome its own inevitable entropic "heat death."

• track _Energy & Information_ MP3 by Young American Primitive
• trip hop acid jazz track _Heat Death Of The Universe_ MP3 by Fila Brazilia off of _Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight_ CD on Twentythree #008 (1997)

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