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This is one of those things that sounds profound, but only until you think about it. Depending on how you read this, it either excludes life entirely or include
by dpark 11mo ago
This is one of those things that sounds profound, but only until you think about it. Depending on how you read this, it either excludes life entirely or includes all sorts of things that are not meaningfully alive.
1. Living things locally decrease entropy but globally increase it.
2. Many other processes do the same. As chermi noted, a liquid solidifying has the same characteristic.
- Noaidi 11mo agoI definitely choose the second of your two outcomes. That it includes all sorts of things that you think are not meaningfully alive. But these things are actually life. Yes, living things locally decrease entropy and that’s my point. And maybe I should’ve been more clear for people who cannot grasp new understandings, anything that can decrease its own entropy is living. I mean, do you think life has nothing to do with the organization matter into a lower entropy state?