Figuring Some Things Out
Probably something to do with entropy, but I’m not good at fractal geometry
Some scientists believe that if you shine a star’s energy onto any clump of matter for long enough, eventually you’ll get a plant. You can’t beat the laws of thermodynamics, and all that heat and energy gotta dissipate somehow. Here’s what I wonder: Once you’ve already got plants and animals, does that flow of energy continue to drive the creative process in ways more complex even than biology and evolution? Does the human desire to create originate from the universe’s need to distribute energy? Are the heights of human creative expression driven by the local universe’s need to barf its way from a low-entropy to a high-entropy state? Are all biological life forms just entropy-processing machines, and beauty and art merely side-effects that resulted from natural selection producing ever-more efficient machines?
I have no idea, but it sounds so crazy, it just might work…
