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Life is not fighting the second law of thermodynamics; it surfs increasing entropy and depends on it to hold itself together.
Drawn from what Sean Carroll said
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- Sean Carroll Theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University
Sometimes people think that complexity or life or whatever is fighting against the second law of thermodynamics, fighting against the increase of entropy. That is precisely the wrong way to think about it. We are surfers riding the wave of increasing entropy. We rely on increasing entropy to survive.
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