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FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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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TheYear2525@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The purpose of life is to seek out and dissipate energy gradients.

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- 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.
  
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  - WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Very interesting take, I love it
    
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spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve never heard that theory described so succinctly.

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- 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
  
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  - spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The second. Sorry.
    
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    FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Haha, all good!
    
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