The Second Law of Thermodynamics
In Our Time
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The Consequences of Chaos
We are local abatements of chaos, we are driven into complexity by the creation of greater disorder elsewhere. But where is this elsewhere? You keep saying it's on the sun, ultimately. I mean, it's the dissipation of energy on the sun which is driving events in the vegetation on Earth. Animals eat the vegetation, they use that as fuel. That drives their processes, including their growth, their reproduction, and their thinking. And our thinking. So it's when you look at the whole thing that you realize that there is a simple explanation,. that is energy is dispersing and driving the events which you think are getting rise to complexity. They are in fact giving rise to
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