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It's just a matter of statistics and our own perception that we don't see order naturally re-emerge from disorder without energy. This gets into many modern theory of mind, including Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle which is essentially about making predictions (minimizing surprise). This thread is getting long already but a few final pearls to put on this string. Many have seen the film "Arrival" by Villeneuve https://medium.com/@georgegtownsend/revisiting-arrival-7b72c7ec7541, based on the short story "The Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. The aliens in the story (I don't recall in the film but will need to rewatch) view time differently. It's not so causal and sequential. (Causality can also be viewed through the lens of order and thermodynamics, what is necessary for one arrangement of things to transfer into another). They see time as minimizing/maximizing forces. There is a tautology to the universe, a direction and a meaning, a selective process of paths. Our job is to follow it. 4/5

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