This is not, in general, a compelling answer. It's true that the second law is a red herring, but it remains true that in any system humans have measured, inclu

This is not, in general, a compelling answer. It's true that the second law is a red herring, but it remains true that in any system humans have measured, including open systems, huge gobs of complex information like even the simplest life do not spontaneously form. Saying "it's an open system, dummy" ignores this gap. The truth is we still haven't quite figured it out. We're getting there (Jeremy England's work is the big one in my mind), but we're not there yet.