You can go one step further: life is just an area of low entropy keeping itself like that by increasing the entropy of its environment.
We poop out randomness to keep ourselves not random.
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treefrog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Self-sustaining chemical reactions…
What a fun way to think of life (and thus myself).
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TheYear2525@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The purpose of life is to seek out and dissipate energy gradients.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Due to this fact, I strongly believe that the ultimate purpose of intelligent life must be to find a way to reverse entropy, before there are no more energy gradients to dissipate.
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Very interesting take, I love it
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve never heard that theory described so succinctly.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The first or the second? Cause I’ve been working on the first for years, but the second came to me in 5 seconds, so I hope it’s the first :D
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean that is literally what we’re made of. You know those PCR COVID tests? The underlying process just makes DNA/RNA do what they would otherwise do inside the body, outside the body. Put some you-goo through that same process and it just starts replicating all by itself. Everything that makes you unique that’s wasn’t also a product of your environment is digitally encoded in that double helix, and all it wants or knows how to do is ffuuuuuuuuccckkkkkk
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re just a rabbit hole that math fell down.
LrdThndr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hydrogen is an element that, when left for long enough in sufficient quantities, begins to wonder where it came from.