Entropy may always be increasing in the universe, but I would argue that so is something else, which is not well-understood scientifically but may be called complexity, life or intelligence. Intelligence seems to be the one “force” capable of overcoming entropy, and since it’s growing exponentially I conclude that it will overwhelm entropy and produce something quite different in our region of spacetime in short order—i.e. a “singularity”. If, as I believe, we are a transitional species and a means to a universal singularity, why would I want a system which restricts changes to those which are comprehensible or related to us?
Intelligence seems to be the one “force” capable of overcoming entropy
Intelligence burns entropy to function. It just burns it in a far more efficient way in terms of awesomeness per entropy unit than anything else does. It can also concentrate the negentropy, mining a lot of it to use for its own ends. But in the end we are still entropy’s bitch. Intellgence would need to find a way to work around the apparent loss of negentropy and find a new source if it wants to survive forever.
Intelligence has discovered nuclear fission—and is working on nuclear fusion. It looks set to be the greatest entropy-creator evolution has ever invented.
Entropy may always be increasing in the universe, but I would argue that so is something else, which is not well-understood scientifically but may be called complexity, life or intelligence. Intelligence seems to be the one “force” capable of overcoming entropy, and since it’s growing exponentially I conclude that it will overwhelm entropy and produce something quite different in our region of spacetime in short order—i.e. a “singularity”. If, as I believe, we are a transitional species and a means to a universal singularity, why would I want a system which restricts changes to those which are comprehensible or related to us?
Intelligence burns entropy to function. It just burns it in a far more efficient way in terms of awesomeness per entropy unit than anything else does. It can also concentrate the negentropy, mining a lot of it to use for its own ends. But in the end we are still entropy’s bitch. Intellgence would need to find a way to work around the apparent loss of negentropy and find a new source if it wants to survive forever.
Intelligence has discovered nuclear fission—and is working on nuclear fusion. It looks set to be the greatest entropy-creator evolution has ever invented.