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Counterpoint, "Entropy is Life": Diffusion is an entropy driven process, and is fundamental to most biological processes. Plus other more specific entropy drive
by xkcd-sucks 4y ago
Counterpoint, "Entropy is Life": Diffusion is an entropy driven process, and is fundamental to most biological processes. Plus other more specific entropy driven reactions [0 + google it]. Lazy metaphors...
[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep04142 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep04142
- molbioguy 4y agoCounterpoint to your counterpoint :) I think local entropy has to decrease first to create the concentration gradients that are harvested by diffusion. So life must also rely on decreasing the local entropy. All depends on how you define the system.
- contravariant 4y agoYou can't decrease local entropy without increasing it overall. We can only live by moving towards higher entropy, it's how we tell the past from the future.