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DOGMA CONSEQUENCES. “Albeit, how exactly the apparent decrease of entropy on the planet Earth is compensated by an increase in entropy somewhere else is less clear. Since "somewhere else" can potentially include the whole Universe, the Universe as a whole is believed to undergo natural disorganization on the way to its final destination, i.e., to a state of maximum entropy, where all changes will cease, and disorder and simplicity will prevail forever.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

THE DOGMA. “The apparent conflict between theory and empirical reality is normally dismissed by pointing out that the second law does not really contradict biological evolution because local decreases in entropy (i.e., ordering) are possible as long as there are compensating increases in entropy (i.e., disordering) somewhere else, so that net entropy always increases.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

THE ENIGMA. “Yet this empirical trend stands in stark contrast with one of the fundamental laws of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, which states that energy/matter can spontaneously evolve only from states of lower entropy (order) to states of higher entropy (disorder), i.e., in the opposite direction.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

INCREASING SPEED. “Moreover, when considered over macroevolutionary timescales, the expansion and ordering of living matter appears to proceed at an accelerating pace.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

THE ENTROPY QUESTION. “In other words, living matter as a whole appears to evolve spontaneously from states of relative simplicity and disorder (i.e., high entropy states) to states of relative complexity and order (i.e., low entropy states).” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

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COMPLEXIFICATION. “In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of 'complexification'.” (1955, Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, page 48) https://lnkd.in/epfinwRn. View in LinkedIn

TRENDING SLOPE. “Periodic but transient setbacks in the form of mass extinctions notwithstanding, living matter on our planet has been continuously expanding in terms of its size, diversity, complexity, order, and influence on nonliving matter.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXIFICATION. “It is a self-evident fact that life, as we know it, has a natural tendency to expand in space and time and to evolve from simplicity to complexity.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn