While I enjoy many of Schmachtenberger's ideas, he's wrong about this.

Evolution definitely increases entropy, if it didn't it couldn't exist. I can't tell how important this is for his overall argument but it seems like a pretty basic physics mistake to make.

While I enjoy many of Schmachtenberger's ideas, he's wrong about this.

Evolution definitely increases entropy, if it didn't it couldn't exist. I can't tell how important this is for his overall argument but it seems like a pretty basic physics mistake to make.
https://civilizationemerging.com/new-economics-series-4/

The only problem is externality pricing.

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researching evolution & collective intelligence

https://joao-abrantes.com

Nope. Remember what criteria natural selection is using to select: the ability to acquire energy.

Natural selection only selects those that are better at increasing entropy.

Mutation increases entropy

Natural selection decreases it

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Entropy is increased when energy is used. Which causes a larger increase in entropy, a lifeless planet, or Earth?

Clearly Earth. Light that hits Mercury bounces off, only its direction changed. It hits Earth a large fraction sticks, only to be radiated later at a lower frequency (it has lost energy).

This has always been really confusing to me. Life is clearly more ordered/organized than non-life. How could it be increasing entropy?

I did a podcast on this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDCOZfKdOvE discussing Abstraction, Extraction & Accumulation

> Turning complex, contextualized...extracted, accumulatable, or tradable value
...is endergonic. not necessarily an increase in entropy.
natural evolution is really elegant as epigenetic selection. maybe niche diversification increases environmental complexity, but underlying ecology is reaching dynamic equilibria.