Animating innate vibrance
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"Life is a revolt, a paradox against the fundamental rule of Nature to trend toward equilibrium, which is at the maximum of entropy (i.e. disorder) and the minimum of free energy. Life goes against this trend it tends to decrease its entropy (builds and maintains structure and order and increases its free energy). Life is made possible by order, structure, and a pattern, which is the opposite of entropy. The main aim of living things is to conserve and transmit this order and structure through reproduction. But, this reversal against the trend to decay is costly and requires continual capture and expenditure of energy. Plants, the auotrophs, use solar energy to build structure into organic molecules such as sugar and cells and to create energy reserves to survive and maintain their structure. We, as heterotrophs, feed on negative entropy by extracting the energy built into the structure of organic molecules by the auotrophs, the plants." Derived from: "WHAT IS LIFE?" by Erwin Shrödinger, First published in 1944.
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What lies between the ticks of time?
The pause between heart beats pulse?
The eye sight missed when you blink?
The still moments when you are breathing neither in nor out?
Our body's attempt to keep pace is flawed
by the mechanics we deploy to defeat entropy's cost
to defray the inevitable decay
of the material universe
to maximum disorder, randomness and uncertainty.
To keep up, to stay alive,
to build and maintain
structure and order is costly,
as it defeats for a faction of time,
the universe's purpose
which is inevitable continuous decay to disorder
without pause,
without hesitation
without disruption or interruption.
It is within the momentary pauses
that we, the incessant, get our way,
animating an innate vibrancy
to resist the decay all living things face,
and struggle against,
to a totally disordered state,
lifeless and decayed, on doomsday.
Copyright © John Anderson | Year Posted 2024
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