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Michael W. Taft
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🦇 Sentient comet 💫 Meditation freak 🙏🏻 Teacher 🍄 Author 🎙Podcaster 📚 SF nerd 🤖 Serial comma enthusiast 🌏 Raised by wolves 🐺 Bad influence 🧝🏻‍♂️

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    Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Apr 24

    Life is composed of anti-entropic systems. Suffering is life’s response to entropy—it’s opposite. Insight means to stop feeling like entropy is a mistake, an insult, not fair. Things falling apart is the nature of the universe.

    7:06 PM - 24 Apr 2018
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      2. Jayarava‏ @Jayarava Apr 24
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        "Life is composed of anti-entropic systems." It isn't. Life makes the earth a far more efficient entropy raising body than a bare rock would be. You have to look at systems as a whole. Overall, entropy always increases.

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      3. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Apr 24
        Replying to @Jayarava

        Life exports entropy away from itself into its surroundings to keep its own internal entropy low. Yes, of course, if you include the surroundings (like rock) then the entropy increases, but not within each organism. Negentropy is what life does, fundamentally.

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      4. Jayarava‏ @Jayarava Apr 24
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        "Negentropy is what life does, fundamentally." If this was true, we would not age.

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      5. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Apr 25
        Replying to @Jayarava

        This is an really interesting point: life actively embraces the entropy of aging as the cost for the very great benefit of sexual reproduction (w/ its selection & fitness upgrades). Asexual reproducers-effectively immortal-got left in the evolutionary dust.

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      6. Jayarava‏ @Jayarava Apr 25
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        This is an anthropocentric view of evolution. All living organisms are equally evolved. Bacteria were and are the most successful life form on the planet and can in no way be said to have been left in the dust.

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      2. Shaunyata‏ @shaunbartone Apr 25
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        I like it! I've thought about the 'entropy' question in regards to Dharma, and this is a very succinct statement about it. #peaceissexy

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      2. Robert Janda‏ @RJsnda Apr 27
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        Yes, we can alleviate our fear through reconciliation. But also, there is another way, i.e. to live unfinitelly in the Multiverse (Everett´s interpretation of q. mechanics). I think that the point is to find a key to right door. Maybe, the reconcilation is this key..

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      3. Robert Janda‏ @RJsnda Apr 27
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        ...or more precisely, right questions (within the process of getting knowledge in the Multiverse) direct us to the key point, i.e. to continuation...

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      1. ton m. buk‏ @tonmbuk Apr 27
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        sanskrta - asanskrta 👍😊

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