One man’s order is another man’s entropy.
Entropy is a tendency toward disorder. Life tends to reverse entropy (at least locally). It tends to create order.
Nature had spent millions of years developing intricate communities of interactive plants, animals, minerals and fluids. She built up diversity so the bio-communities can be robust. Her complexity is actually a high level of order.
Historically, our western civilization has viewed nature as chaos and entropy. It needed to be civilized and ordered. We proceeded to eliminate pests and clear fields, reducing the complexity and diversity that had been built up.
Nature’s order seemed like entropy to us.
Our sense of order is entropy to nature.
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yin and yang
This "Random Thought" is thought provoking. It's obvious but we've missed it.
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