Aren't things like the poleo vaccine or penicillin that? We could let the universe do its will, or fight against it.
The same could be said for ants building rafts to survive a flood. That seems like life fighting against entropy to survive to me.
The same could be said for ants building rafts to survive a flood. That seems like life fighting against entropy to survive to me.
If I remember correctly, life actually increases the rate of entropy. So, conceptually, the more life, the faster the universe approaches heat death.
It turns my world view upside down, but that's good.
I've been seeing it as the universe tearing us down this whole time. Really it's us tearing the universe down.
Somehow this is much more comforting to me. Thank you!
"inventing the polio vaccine" was just a set of deterministic interactions between atoms in Jonas Salk's brain. During that entire process, entropy only increased, the universe further unwinds itself.