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I really, really like your

Submitted by Rachel Tashjian on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 6:56pm.

I really, really like your idea of "humans [as] a disruption to the ordered (improbable) assemblies of life."

I think, like Professor Grobstein said in class, it's not just the humans in general that are causing the disruption, but our reliance on nonrenewable resources. It seems to me that the more "improbable" humans try to make themselves (by constantly striving to better human life via technology, industry, etc), the less improbable they make life in general (because this expansion often uses nonrenewable resources). So, I would say that the orderliness of life changes to adapt to the human-caused disruptions—it decreases.

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