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Originally Posted by Robert There are profound thoughts that have deep meanings and can stretch our minds in new directions or offer new perspectives on which to view things. These thoughts have been offered in the past by many of our great thinkers and remain profound and deeply moving even today. This forum is devoted to those thoughts.
This forum will have a bit more structure and organization than other forums. The threads may be edited a bit more for spelling and clarity. Posts will be deleted or moved to a more appropriate forum if they stray from the topic. If you know of a profound thought you wish to discuss please make a suggestion to this thread and, if possible, include a source or reference of some kind. Please refrain from personal thoughts which you consider to be profound. I'm generally looking for profoundness already in the public domain. I'll make exceptions of course. I'm sure we have some great thinkers among us who are members of the ToeQuest forums  . Your profound thought suggestion will be reviewed and, if approved, a new thread will be started.
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May I suggest Erwin Schrodinger's idea:
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"How would we express in terms of the statistical theory the marvellous faculty of a living organism, by which it delays the decay into thermodynamical equilibrium (death)? We said before: 'It feeds upon negative entropy' ... entropy, taken with the negative sign, is itself a measure of order. Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment." - Schrödinger, Erwin. What is Life? NEW YORK: Cambridge University Press, 1944
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