Well our purpose is to turn low entropy into high entropy, that's what drove the existence of life. If machines can do it faster then they'll win out eventually.

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tekne 3 days ago | parent [-]

It's interesting: on balance life increases entropy.

Yet it also produces pockets of ultra-low entropy; states which would be staggeringly, astronomically unlikely to be witnessed in nature.

So perhaps what life does is increase entropy-entropy -- the diversity of entropy, versus a consistent entropic smear -- even as it increases entropy...

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eru 3 days ago | parent [-]

> So perhaps what life does is increase entropy-entropy -- the diversity of entropy, versus a consistent entropic smear -- even as it increases entropy...

Life is a rounding error in the energy and entropy balance of the solar system. And even on earth we barely amount to much.

	▲	tekne 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Nice username -- very fitting. Yes, and yet if we instead look for low-entropy peaks, I'd be shocked if anything in the solar system is even nearly as low-entropy as a single bacterium, let alone a brain. Then there's potential...