entropy
The basic premise, as far as I can tell, of the first law of thermodynamics is that the entropy of a given system will increase until the order of that system at time 0 is no longer in existance. This holds true. Any given space, when filled with nothing, will eventually be filled with things, thus negating the earlier state. What people don't seem to realize when taking of these laws of entropy is that once the diffusion of new stuff has happened, once the energy level has re-asserted itself, once the vibration has reached its harmony, it's not so important anymore that the previous state has been summarily destroyed, but that there exists a new state of balance and nothingness from which new entropy can be grown.
Now some would argue, and they do, that in truly large systems (The universe comes to mind) the entropy will continue to grow until there is naught but chaos. I fail to believe this. I see it more as a seemingly random reordering of systems, and less as the destruction of one system to begin another.
So it seems to be in life. As a person grows, and experiences, the hole that was their brain begins to fill with stuff until it is filled with a seemingly random amalgamation of neurons creating this varied sensory experience which we call life.
This definition of life is what I call order.
It is the natural state in which you exist.
Yes, it is chaotic (as all natural systems inherently are), but that chaos is the definition of your state of being. In my life, this state is extremely chaotic. It is made so by the seemingly random, often cruel hand that fate deals me. I exist in my own little state of chaotic, but balanced, existence until the next big thing happens and I am once again thrown into a growing and often dizzying level of confusion. Like Molecules of hydrogen diffusing through what was until their arrival a vacuum, these events spread through my life and my world-view until they destroy my way of being, my way of seeing, and my way of feeing. Fortunately I have come to understand that this destruction of my tenuous grasp on my own disorder is not so much that as simply the thrusting of my consiousness (often against my will) into yet another state of disorder which will become my new balance. If I grasp this new disorder and chaos as the way things are, it should, in theory, make it easy for me to absorb the blows that I know are coming and deal with them as I have dealt with all of the things that life has thrown at me, for if we are not able to absorb entropy and make it work for us, then, according to the first law of thermodynamics, we will all fail.
And I refuse to believe that.
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as an addendum I would like to say that a cursory understanding of even the basic laws of thermodynamics has lead me down this path, and further study will be needed to bring this idea that I'm working on to full fruition. As such, if you know more about this than me, and I am wrong, well.... you win. let me live in my delusion. I'll figure it out in my own time. Thanks.
Now some would argue, and they do, that in truly large systems (The universe comes to mind) the entropy will continue to grow until there is naught but chaos. I fail to believe this. I see it more as a seemingly random reordering of systems, and less as the destruction of one system to begin another.
So it seems to be in life. As a person grows, and experiences, the hole that was their brain begins to fill with stuff until it is filled with a seemingly random amalgamation of neurons creating this varied sensory experience which we call life.
This definition of life is what I call order.
It is the natural state in which you exist.
Yes, it is chaotic (as all natural systems inherently are), but that chaos is the definition of your state of being. In my life, this state is extremely chaotic. It is made so by the seemingly random, often cruel hand that fate deals me. I exist in my own little state of chaotic, but balanced, existence until the next big thing happens and I am once again thrown into a growing and often dizzying level of confusion. Like Molecules of hydrogen diffusing through what was until their arrival a vacuum, these events spread through my life and my world-view until they destroy my way of being, my way of seeing, and my way of feeing. Fortunately I have come to understand that this destruction of my tenuous grasp on my own disorder is not so much that as simply the thrusting of my consiousness (often against my will) into yet another state of disorder which will become my new balance. If I grasp this new disorder and chaos as the way things are, it should, in theory, make it easy for me to absorb the blows that I know are coming and deal with them as I have dealt with all of the things that life has thrown at me, for if we are not able to absorb entropy and make it work for us, then, according to the first law of thermodynamics, we will all fail.
And I refuse to believe that.
- - -
as an addendum I would like to say that a cursory understanding of even the basic laws of thermodynamics has lead me down this path, and further study will be needed to bring this idea that I'm working on to full fruition. As such, if you know more about this than me, and I am wrong, well.... you win. let me live in my delusion. I'll figure it out in my own time. Thanks.