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| | mca-adiabatic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In its most basic form it is a statement about energy transfer, and it says that it takes time for energy to be transferred from one system to another; therefore the faster something happens, the less energy is transferred. |
 | | Moreover, and this goes beyond and adds to the separability of timescales guaranteed by the adiabatic principle, we are buffered from fast, small-scale events, like ionization of individual atoms in our bodies or even errors in gene transcription, by longer term regulatory and self-correcting processes typical of the intermediate scales of autopoietic or self-organizing systems. |
 | | The adiabatic principle has exceptions, and one of these is fundamental to human social organization. |
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