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View Article  What does entropy have to offer us as individuals? Part II of II

What does entropy have to offer us as individuals?

 

Part II of II

Entropy implies the universe is temporary, which implies there is something that is not temporary.

 

Something is eternal.

 

Something appears to have no connection to time, for time appears to be an idea that depends upon the existence of mass.

 

But that is another idea altogether.

 

Although entropy may assign a hopeless state to the universe, it will die at the same time it offers hope to each of us as individuals.

 

By introducing the idea of our universe dying, entropy alludes to the idea of eternal existence.

 

This suggests the possibility of something nonphysical, such as awareness, being able to transcend the physical universe.

 

Entropy offers us a sense of hope.

 

 

The conceptual framework of entropy offers us eventual ‘death’ for our universe.

 

If we are a part of our universe and if eternity does not exist, then the apparent conclusion would be that all individuals would eventually die away permanently.

 

All the struggles to overcome adversity and temptation will have had no meaning, no significance.

 

But if something exists beyond our universe, this changes.

 

If there is a Causative Force, as the science of entropy implies, and if the Causative Force is all present, as religions imply, then the easiest way for us to understand the manner in which we, as individuals, can escape death, the ultimate fate of the universe, is to understand that our awareness is tied to, becomes a part of, total awareness or the omniscience of the Causative Force.

 

As such, hope emerges. Entropy brings us hope.

 

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View Article  What does entropy have to offer us as individuals? Part I of II

What does entropy have to offer us as individuals?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Entropy implies that change is the key to ‘being alive.’

 

 

Science only deals with the observable and leaves the debate regarding the unobservable to religions and philosophy.

 

The science of entropy predicts the ‘death’ of the universe.

 

As such, entropy implies there was ‘something’ before, which implies there may very well be ‘something’ after.

 

It does not seem logical that this ‘something’ would not exist between the stages of ‘before’ and ‘after.’

 

Therefore, we assume this ‘something’ exists now – is living now.

 

Entropy offers us an understanding that, although the universe may ‘die,’ each of us as individuals may survive this ‘death.’

 

Entropy reinforces the religious idea of ‘eternal life’ for the individual.

 

Eternity is simply a state of being that came well before the universe, continues to exist, and will continue to exist beyond the death of the universe.

 

To be continued: Part II of II: Entropy implies the universe is temporary, which implies...
View Article  How does entropy help us understand what life is? Part II of II

How does entropy help us understand what life is?

 

Part II of II

...They go on to say the soul is eternal and not attached to this planet or this universe.

 

If we have a soul and if the soul goes beyond the universe, then the idea of the universe eventually ‘dying,’ as entropy suggests, is not a concern we need to agonize over.

 

Entropy implies we can measure life through the means of observing if change takes place.

 

When the ideas of entropy are combined with religion, we begin to understand life exists on many levels.

 

There appears to be life without awareness (rocks, mountains, water…), life with temporary awareness (trees, birds, bacteria…), and life with eternal awareness (humans, extraterrestrial life forms…).

 

 

Entropy helps us understand life.

 

Life now becomes definable and the soul becomes measurable.

 

Without being measurable, the essence of human life could not be debated by science.

 

Because of this, science could not distinguish human life from other types of life.

 

This presented many types of seemingly unresolvable social issues, such as abortion, fetal tissue research, artificial intelligence…

 

If, however, scientists, doctors, clergy, layman, etc. consider the essence of a human (the soul) to have left the body when the brain waves do not change (flat line brain waves), then they have no choice but to define the essence of the human to occur when the brain waves start (changing brain waves).

 

Now the issue of abortion becomes resolvable.

 

Entropy, the measure of change, helps us understand life.

 

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View Article  How does entropy help us understand what life is? Part I of II

How does entropy help us understand what life is?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Entropy explains the means by which the universe operates.

 

The universe operates upon the idea of heat exchange.

 

As heat exchange takes place, change takes place.

 

Change is the key characteristic we use to establish if something is alive.

 

 

The word alive is a complex term.

 

If change is part of the definition for being alive, then the universe is alive because it is undergoing constant change.

 

Many environmentalists would say our planet is alive and our universe is alive just as we are alive.

 

If this is true, then what makes us different from earth, plants, animals, the universe itself?

 

Atheists would say there is no basic difference.

 

Because we are basically the same, we should show the same respect to the earth, universe, and each other as we do ourselves.

 

Classical/traditional religions would say we humans are different because there is an extra element within us that is not found within the earth, soil, plants, and universe.

 

Religions say we have a soul.

 

To be continued: Part II of II: They go on to say...