There is a concept worth looking into here. A concept that invented by physicists that shows progress is built into our genes. It's negentropy. Or negative entropy. For life to exist at all, non-living materials had to coalesce over eons into the first living things. Then those living things slowly evolved and lived longer. New problems …
There is a concept worth looking into here. A concept that invented by physicists that shows progress is built into our genes. It's negentropy. Or negative entropy. For life to exist at all, non-living materials had to coalesce over eons into the first living things. Then those living things slowly evolved and lived longer. New problems were solved, but accidentally. Then one day the human being hit the scene, and even within the short span of the existence of human beings we have solved different problems. It took the emergence of rational consciousness and choice-making to make all other, otherwise, natural problem solving pale in comparison. I have written much more on this, none of it published really. The slogan I give to this, is "Be negentropic." It means to be against chaos, against disorganization. Work for more efficiency, effectiveness, and long life spans. And look for what motivates us to gain more of what we have and to become better and better. Be negentropic. It's rooted in our DNA, but now we are the emergence that must move it forward by choice. It gives a great power, but now we are each individually responsible for it in our own lives.
A brief outline of the evolution of negentropy:
Insentient negentropy: these are the chemical processes that took place for amino acids, the cell, and the first organisms to exist.
Telelogical negentropy: after the first organisms emerged, teleological negentropy emerged as well. It is purpose driven negentropy. A life trying to actively stay alive, whether it knows it or not.
Sentient negentropy: this is the evolution in life that brought about consciousness. It's far more advanced forms of negentropy. Anyone that has watched a large cat hunting has seen this form of negentropy at play.
Rational negentropy: this is the specifically human form of negentropy. It's the choosing that we do, the creation of logic, and the meticulous weeding out of problems of our daily lives as you mention.
There may be a fifth that precedes the 4 just mentioned and it might be called something like physio-chemical negentropy, where the formation of planets, new elements, and new molecules took place. But each builds on the last. And even though the universe might tend towards entropy, it doesn't discount this emergence and progression of the negentropic forms. The biggest challenge to my ideas here is that perhaps entropy doesn't exist. A famous physicist, Sabine Hossenfelder, admonished the lack of coherence and progress with the subject of entropy in physics. For now, I will stop here.
There is a concept worth looking into here. A concept that invented by physicists that shows progress is built into our genes. It's negentropy. Or negative entropy. For life to exist at all, non-living materials had to coalesce over eons into the first living things. Then those living things slowly evolved and lived longer. New problems were solved, but accidentally. Then one day the human being hit the scene, and even within the short span of the existence of human beings we have solved different problems. It took the emergence of rational consciousness and choice-making to make all other, otherwise, natural problem solving pale in comparison. I have written much more on this, none of it published really. The slogan I give to this, is "Be negentropic." It means to be against chaos, against disorganization. Work for more efficiency, effectiveness, and long life spans. And look for what motivates us to gain more of what we have and to become better and better. Be negentropic. It's rooted in our DNA, but now we are the emergence that must move it forward by choice. It gives a great power, but now we are each individually responsible for it in our own lives.
A brief outline of the evolution of negentropy:
Insentient negentropy: these are the chemical processes that took place for amino acids, the cell, and the first organisms to exist.
Telelogical negentropy: after the first organisms emerged, teleological negentropy emerged as well. It is purpose driven negentropy. A life trying to actively stay alive, whether it knows it or not.
Sentient negentropy: this is the evolution in life that brought about consciousness. It's far more advanced forms of negentropy. Anyone that has watched a large cat hunting has seen this form of negentropy at play.
Rational negentropy: this is the specifically human form of negentropy. It's the choosing that we do, the creation of logic, and the meticulous weeding out of problems of our daily lives as you mention.
There may be a fifth that precedes the 4 just mentioned and it might be called something like physio-chemical negentropy, where the formation of planets, new elements, and new molecules took place. But each builds on the last. And even though the universe might tend towards entropy, it doesn't discount this emergence and progression of the negentropic forms. The biggest challenge to my ideas here is that perhaps entropy doesn't exist. A famous physicist, Sabine Hossenfelder, admonished the lack of coherence and progress with the subject of entropy in physics. For now, I will stop here.