along which we are travelling as having the possibility of “taking us to a good place”: say from what I term chaos through to our current achievements in so many “spheres” and, ever onwards (you can get quite a lot done in infinite time). That book “the mathematics of chaos” is all very well, but as maths is a language for describing patterns, one might just as well say order, true chaos can’t be so measured or described. True chaos would be so “disorderly” that we wouldn’t have evolved with any sense that would be capable of “seeing” it, there would be no point whatsoever, although we might be able to guess it is there a bit along the lines of a “virtual image” by the “no parallax” method. No doubt there is quite a bit of it around, or there was. Maybe that’s the stuff now called “dark matter” (I have never got into all that, it was just a suggestion. Another suggestion would be that a black hole is a place of absolute zero at which all energy, which is just a “vibration” around a mean, collapses. Elsewhere explain why e = mc² not mc³
The other side of the coin (or on the other hand, for clapping with) All is energy, All is change, All is one
That having been said / accepted we then go on to say that the entropy law certainly does describe the going-apart-edness of the creative process, and whilst doing so, what we might also call it the tendency towards sharing-ness, and the tendency towards avoidance of what it is convenient to describe as (ever potentially lethal, to us, global markets and “creation” itself) critical mass. An example of ignorance of that aspect would be given by intensive farming (which allows proliferation of disease). No matter how expedient it seems, just don’t do it, as it won’t work out in the longer term, it is asking for trouble.
That description of the mechanism the entropy law rightly acknowledges / allows one to see is that “disorder” is not an appropriate term at all. It might look like that, in the very short term, for example along the lines of how the mountains wear down. Yet if one looks at what is happening in geological time scales, or better still, in astronomical time scales, then not only for the former does the “wearing down” give us fertile valleys, (plate tectonics allows so much more, explained elsewhere) with the latter astronomical time scales, we get to the veracity of the song (from “Hair”) “We are star dust”. So the entropy law is just part of the story / description of creation (and not much more useful in itself than one hand clapping) rather than the mechanism of destruction.
The other side of the same “coin” is that:
The universe also tends to hold together in dynamic equilibrium by intrinsic relationships.
Examples of which relationships at the macro scale are gravity, to the extent that mass even bends light, at the micro scale we have hydrogen bonding, also the rather similar mechanisms of DNA replication, and in between the balancing act between flora / fauna / plate tectonics and atmosphere as described so well by the Gaia theory. But ignoring the scientific manifestation of “intrinsic relationships”, on a more human scale we have love within families, attachment to home and what is familiar, and the dynamics within “communities” (one might even say ecosystems). Such things as familiarity then relate to being able to delegate a great deal to conditioned reflexes which depend on “assumptions”, to allow our brains to be free of so many chores, eventually allowing for such as the skill and thus pride of craftsmen and appreciation of others for the work. Such intrinsic relationships function right down to the smallest scale most of us can get our heads round which is the sub-atomic structure of an atom, plain and simple positive nucleus circumnavigated by “negative” electrons. I have never got much “below” that in my science, but in recent decades some have. As far as I know all “physical” science (not the “natural” sciences, to do with “life”) is thoroughly accepting of the entropy law, as was.
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