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If someone said “humans suck, but nature is a perfectly beautiful creation 😍” what examples would you think of that show nature being (1) independent of humans and (2) brutal and grotesque? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'd say the fight against entropy is an attempt to retain specific expressions of energy in the system. The expressions of energy are assemblages that have created order. And yes, as you said, the creation of order has a cost: greater global entropy.

In case you're interested, this way of looking at entropy and life comes from Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker.