Exactly! You said it much more intelligently than I. Bodily go where no thinking machine has gone before.

I remember thinking that entropy was bad when I first heard of the concept, but now I see life as tumbling down that slope, and making use of it. There is a synergy, as you say. We must land with a thud, but we're throwing off new forms of order.

And that's not just a metaphor. Our intellect sharpens from birth as neurons get trimmed. Early in life we have fluid intelligence, later in life it's crystalized.