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> Imagine a pile of ash (high entropy) assembling into a copy of Shakespeare (low entropy), compared with the reverse. Imagine the soil 50 years before Shakesp
by civility 8y ago
> Imagine a pile of ash (high entropy) assembling into a copy of Shakespeare (low entropy), compared with the reverse.
Imagine the soil 50 years before Shakespeare forming the food he ate and the trees which became the paper he wrote on. It seems a lot like ash (soil) did organize itself to a lower entropy collection (with a lot of help from an external energy pool).
- dwaltrip 8y agoTrue! However, the seed that became the tree is very low entropy. One of my favorite marvels about life is how it is an unbroken chain that goes back 4 billion years (with countless branching, truncated ends, of course). Also, many seeds didn't make it, so there is a bit of survivor bias looking at the one seed that did become a tree.