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My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Law of Identity

Entropy is not a force per se like gravity. It's just what happens if energy isn't put into the system. So my example here is a sand castle. There are far more ways for sand to be structured unstructured than structured. The life consists of building sand castles and maintaining them. By the way, this also explains why failures in life are so much more common than successes. More ways to fail than there are to succeed.

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