Closed System
Interacting entities and forces not subject to outside influence (for example, the Universe). A corollary of the second law of thermodynamics is that in a closed system, entropy increases.
Articles on KurzweilAI.net that refer to Closed System
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: Glossary By Ray Kurzweil
Kurzweilís Law (aka ìthe law of accelerating returnsî) By Ray Kurzweil
The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Four: The Formula for Intelligence By Ray Kurzweil
What is time, and what is the right language to describe change, in a closed system like the universe, which contains all of its observers? By Lee Smolin
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness By David Chalmers
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