Even though net entropy increases over time in a thermally isolated system, local regions of reduced entropy (e.g., complexity) can develop spontaneously in open subsystems as long as there is a greater decrease in entropy (decrease in complexity) in another interlocking part of the system.
Evolution can occur locally within a system by moving thermodynamically "uphill" (building the complex from simpler precursors) in one subsystem (e.g., a population of organisms) as long as an interlocking part of the system (e.g., the Sun) moves thermodynamically "downhill" at a significantly faster rate and magnitude than evolution moves uphill.
Earlier, circling two large hinged screens in alternating loops, their video "shadows" sometimes following, the men were like deftly interlocking parts of a machine, their bodies constantly reconstituting through neat, fluid shifts.
Mechanisms explain effects in terms of interlocking parts, and the relation across levels, they affirm, is one of constitution, not causation; causation can only be intra-level.
In eleven minutes, it uses a stunning variety of overlapping, interlocking parts, as deft in its repetition as anything Steve Reich has done.
The Kindle process is especially poor, with dozens of interlocking parts that must be juggled in order to convert, format, tweak and publish a book.
One shape-shifting architectural structure forms the basis for all the scenes, its stonelike, interlocking parts evoking a claustrophobic world.
And it's hard not to hear the influence of Mr. Berne in the new pieces Mr. Formanek has composed, particularly those with sprawling form and flinty, interlocking parts.
Rusty brown and black shapes interlock, making part of the picture look like a large jigsaw puzzle in which bird-like cut-outs can be discerned.
Kapton tape and Zylon fiber are wrapped on the wire by interlocking with the drive part of the timing-belts.
And while the duo deploys house music's deep bass throbs and programmed kick drum and high-hats, the music is driven just as much by the syncopations of the interlocking parts above them.
