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Thinking About Those Mindless Moments
In his review of The Unintended Consequences of Civilization, Gordon Pitz writes,
"Smart people do stupid things because they behave mindlessly. The automatic response system that produces mindless behavior evolved because it was adaptive, but it comes at a cost. That everything beneficial comes at a cost is a special case of the Newtonian principle of maximum entropy."How do mindless behaviors, the problems of modern civilization, evolution, and fundamental principles of physics relate?
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