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[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Local entropy, that is. At a global scale, life increases entropy.

[-] Onyxonblack@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Yep, and life basically is entropy; or entropy causes life, the great mixing!

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Wait, it's all entropy?

Always has been ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ซ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿš€

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Bugs and trash are bad entropy, food and people are good entropy. Until people look like bugs and trash, then you do fascism.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Life is an orderly system of producing disorder

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

At a global scale, everything increases entropy

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Well, nothing increases it, but aren't there contexts where it is unchanged? Vacuum and single isolated particles don't increase entropy I suppose.

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