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> Survival is the battle against entropy

See my username ;) But my inspiration was from trying to make a difference within corporate culture, not raw survival.

> controlling the chaos that surrounds us, and shaping it into something useful

i.e., work

> In the long run, life will lose.

Unless there is a transcendent being beyond our universe, an explanation believed by many people for why, a long time ago, entropy was microscopic. The article admits it can't come up with a materialistic explanation and ends by calling it a "mystery".




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