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Universal entropy is always increasing but put another way - to reduce local entropy work must be done. Life is local order and demands work, this is true wheth
by alex_stoddard 17y ago
Universal entropy is always increasing but put another way - to reduce local entropy work must be done. Life is local order and demands work, this is true whether we are talking biology or culture.
- electromagnetic 17y agoThe path of least resistance isn't necessarily the fastest path to entropy, and the path of most resistance isn't necessarily going against entropy. A meandering river can go on for hundreds of miles, but only cover about ten miles from start to finish of a section. We as humans will innately wind our way following the path of least resistance presented, however as humans we're benefited more by taking a few bumps and going down the hill. We'll readily take weeks to do something that may only take hours, why? Because right now it's easier to meander. Imagine the streams that run into the desert, they'll meander for miles and die off before they get to the ocean where as if they covered the same distance in a straight line it would have reached the ocean. Humans are innately beings of entropy. Everything we do increases entropy. Our ancestors a thousand years ago levelled mountainsides to build towns, they moved thousands of tons of stone from hundreds of feet in the air, to within 20 feet of the ground in a feat that would have taken nature a million years.