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>Half the world's problems might have been solved if people
>stopped mixing fiction up with fact (Beautiful Mind was BASED
>on a true story, but that doesn't make the movie real). You
>can't possibly try to tell me that sound math can be
>speculative at the same time can ya?

Co-sign.

>My objection is simple: the laws of thermodynamics do not
>inevitably mean that no struggle is worthwhile, that's all.
>I'll put the challenge this way: Show me a social example that
>fits the equation G=H-TS (G being Gibb's Free Energy, H being
>Enthalpy, T being temperature and S being entropy), and I'll
>take it all back. And I don't mean find substitutes for the
>variables, I'm talking about a literal interpretation of the
>laws of thermodynamics at a macro-scale. Too petty? Maybe?
>But my point is that just because one relationship has the
>same mathematical description (y=a-b*c in this case), doesn't
>mean that they're the same (Don't get me started on social
>darwinism).

Co-sign. Look at Russell's work; the shift from Pythagorean dream to nightmare.