I've been thinking a lot recently about entropy. I've been thinking that's a bad thing, certainly not a pleasant topic of you think about it's implications. But if you are thinking about it, it's possible to think that "thinking about entropy" might be an antidote against it. Or certainly an inoculation – I think Bucky Fuller called that Syntropy.
Interesting that I should be looking for an "antidote" to entropy -- something to counter it. I suppose Jeremy Rifkin left me with "What to do about entropy" a long time ago. Likewise, Wild Bill Brooks, who inscribed my High School yearbook with Gibbs’s free energy equation
Go =
Ho - T
So
I always liked that and never really knew why. It took quite a while to come to understand the attraction, and I may only now be in a position to really come to understand the significance.
My head has been in pure science and technology speculation the past month or two. Nothing too productive has come from it, but it's good to keep thinking in that direction. My intuitive sense is that we, as a species, need to do a lot more thinking about the importance of science, and quickly, or we’re going to be in big trouble.
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