Is There a Natural Law to Entropy?

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In some way, there's a natural law to that, which is a creating anything as a battle against entropy. So it takes energy and difficulty to create something that has sort of complex form and complex structure. It doesn't take much to take a beautiful sand castle and smash it down, to turn complexity into nothing. But to create a beautifulSandCastle requires work and requires struggle. That's all, you know, wat the improbability of its occurring without your unique imputs. I'm moing to cling on to that.

Paul Bloom is a professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He was also the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University . Paul studies how children and adults make sense of the world, with a focus on pleasure, morality, religion, fiction, and art.

Paul's newest book is The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

Read more about Paul at his website: paulbloom.net.

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