Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.798

   **The physics of organisms are the key to the understanding biology.** This equation shows that the second law of thermodynamics that deals with *heat transfers* appears to always hold and be axiomatic. This is true in closed system and those at equillibrium, but it does not apply to open systems or to systems built to be far from equilibrium. All living cells are open systems built far from equillibrium.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/reality-2-can-life-skirt-uncertainty-principle-second-law-thermodynamics.md

2. 02 · _intake0.798

   We talk about why the conventional wisdom of calories in and calories out is just partially explained by the second law of thermodynamics. Many bright minds in the blogosphere invoke the second law of thermodynamics when speaking of calories, but few have integrated a biologic framework with modern quantum physics to explain understand how useful work might be done in a molecular system when one form of stored energy is converted into another. In other words, how might thermalized energy be unavailable for work? The possibility of this thought is controversial in our community, but fully accep…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/the-paleo-summit-is-the-paleo-diet-the-answer.md

3. 03 · _intake0.786

   I disagree with medicine, paleo, and ancestral health because the organization of the cell allows life to disengage from the first two laws…….*because of their statistical nature*. Calories never matter to life when you understand the physics behind how a cell is built. They key is realizing energy and information or a helix. One cannot exist without the other. The living organism has freed itself from the immediate constraints of energy conservation which is the basis of the First Law of thermodynamics because it uses the information to do it. It also frees itself from the Second Law of therm…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/time-18-divorcing-einstein-using-times-pointed-arrow.md

4. 04 · pubmed0.781

   Schrödinger [Schrödinger, E., 1944. What is Life? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge] marvelled at how the organism is able to use metabolic energy to maintain and even increase its organisation, which could not be understood in terms of classical statistical thermodynamics. Ho [Ho, M.W., 1993. The Rainbow and the Worm, The Physics of Organisms, World Scientific, Singapore; Ho, M.W., 1998a. The Rainbow and the Worm, The Physics of Organisms, 2nd (enlarged) ed., reprinted 1999, 2001, 2003 (available online from ISIS website www.i-sis.org.uk)] outlined a novel "thermodynamics of organised com…

   pubmed/PMID-15985324-sustainable-systems-as-organisms/info.md

5. 05 · _intake0.780

   What impressed Lord Kelvin is how organisms seem to have energy at will, whenever and wherever required, and in a perfectly coordinated way. Another equally puzzling feature is that, contrary to the Second Law, which says all systems should decay into equilibrium and disorder, organisms develop and evolve towards the ever increasing organization. This is what biology and most Ph.D. researchers continue to miss in a big way. Of course, there is no contradiction, as the Second Law applies to isolated systems (**of which life is not an example**), whereas organisms are open systems. But how do or…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/time-18-divorcing-einstein-using-times-pointed-arrow.md

6. 06 · _intake0.774

   Mind you, when I use the word rewire I am not saying this in the literal sense. I am saying it is** thermoplastic and subject to the energies in our modern environment.** I am telling you that even today the laws of chemistry exhibit some unusual properties at extremes and that the laws of evolution seem to have used this in our past for adaptation for and natural selection to allow all life a chance to thrive in the natural extreme conditions on earth. For example, [Kirchhoff’s law of thermal emissions from our sun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hstum3U2zw) has come under fire. Sunlight pow…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/cold-thermogenesis-1-theory-to-practice-begins.md

7. 07 · _intake0.771

   That is a very faulty assumption. Life on this planet evolved from the deep oceans to land. Therefore the biochemistry that dictate’s modern energy generation can not be generalized to all life forms on this planet. It can be studied on those mammals, animals, and bacteria that have undergone natural selection to a warmer climate and have assumed a warm adapted diet. Just because we use and live this way, has no bearing on what we evolved from, or if energy generation is somehow more efficient or less efficient in a different thermoplastic environment. Sleep is the most important part of our b…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/cold-thermogenesis-8.md

8. 08 · _intake0.770

   The membrane pump theory breaks the second law of thermodynamics by 500 fold when we add up how much ATP a cell can make versus how much it uses. This means we have to make energy from some other place. Water, sunlight, and protons make up the big difference. ATP is important but it is not the key to a cell’s bio-energics.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/time-17-melatonin-insulin-solar-metronomes.md

9. 09 · yt0.767

   What do you mean   that it's all talk and not reflected in the  formalism? And also port, because people keep   hearing this word port. Port is spelled  P-O-R-T and refers to the boundary ports. Yes, there are boundary ports, there are  other ports. It's very easily explained   if we write it down. We can't do that  right now. They're simple examples. Well,   the point is, what is not reflected is…  You have a total energy that's conserved,   and of course you can define a potential and a  kinetic energy, and you s…

   yt/Bnh-UNrxYZg-frederic-schuller-the-physicist-who-derived-gravity-from-ele/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.765

    Unlike non-living systems, which gradually move toward equilibrium and disorder, living systems maintain and even increase their internal order over time. An organism grows from a single cell into a complex structure, repairs itself when damaged, and preserves its organization across generations. Shinger did not interpret this as a violation of physical laws. Instead, he sought a deeper understanding of how life operates within those laws. His solution involved rethinking how entropy applies to open systems such as living organisms. A crucial distinction in Schrodinger's reasoning was between …

    yt/Kjq6MuRIYuY-erwin-schr-dinger-documentary-what-is-life-and-the-quantum-e/transcript.txt