Physics of Freedom

Always searching for the real thing
Living like it's far away
Just leave all the madness in yesterday
You're holding the key
When you believe it
--Michael McDonald

Interesting article discussing the physical, rather than philosophical, aspects of freedom. It has a system dynamics flavor to it.

The author proposes that for systems to persist over time, they must freely evolve to permit currents of resources to flow through the system.

When these flows are forcibly restrained, then adaptation is more difficult.

An optimistic implication of this view is that authoritarian states that seek to restrain freedom by censorship, coercion, intimidation, and other means are doomed to failure. People will eventually throw off those constraints in order to adapt.

Perhaps a better label for this concept is 'an evolutionary theory of freedom.'