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They said it no uncertain terms, still, only a handful understand and accept. Is it a sad situation? Something to be really scared about? No use, the stage for all these has passed eons back. What is at hand is - one who understand it and accepts, shall peacefully smile his/her way to inevitability. The question of ‘joy’ of ‘remedy’ and ‘redemption’ is lost way back, the only option available is that of ‘satisfaction’ of ‘acceptance of inevitability’. They said, “The Human Combination of Instinct and Intellect is Species Deadly.” The unique feature of the human, when compared with all other forms of life, is its intellectual ability. This intellect, combining with instincts creates an ‘energy’ for humanity, which unleashes infinite possibilities and each possibility leads to certain and inevitable ‘finality’ of ‘extinction’. The more intelligent the human race becomes, faster it reaches to the inevitability. At this point, the intellect of humanity, instead of working as ‘judicious restraints and guides’ on instincts, is actually working overtime as ‘self-authoritative-facilitator’ of ‘degenerated instincts’. The intellectual restraints no longer being effective, the now perverted and degenerate social instincts are allowed full sway. The ‘empowered and liberated’ instincts are driving people to a culture of ‘instant-self-gratification’ and ‘calamitous-self-validation’ without rational basis and objectivity. All over the globe, the society teeters on the brink of collapse. If it should collapse, the human, now with distorted social instincts, would be unable to survive. Understanding all this may not reverse and redeem anything, yet, it shall provide the ‘satisfaction’ of ‘acceptance of the inevitability of the finality’. They said, “disorder and entropic chaos is far more creative energy… you are better off when you land in the probabilistic multiplicity of uncertainty and are completely taken to randomization of eventualities by the storm of disorder and chaos…” The above rhymes seem a humdrum of an insanely stupid mind, is in the habit of mouthing gibberish insinuations just for populist consumption. People have since ages seem to have spoken of such nonsensical causality to draw attention of mindless millions; no doubt. However, the idea is what thermodynamics says about energy and its situationalism. Understanding the basics of energy and its intuitive mechanism helps a lot in understanding not only the societal space around us but also the systemic stupidities of our inner-selves. The state of physical realism is that the total energy of the universe is constant. The more important factual physicality is that everything tends to become less organized and less orderly over time. The resultant wisdom of the physicality rule is now available for causal philosophizing. We need repeat here that this causal philosophizing is for restrictive purpose of paradigm building only, for a very metaphoric-mechanism; having utility only for arriving at a dimension which otherwise may not be possible. This process has derivative utility only in a positioning not always tactile. Energy being constant is a huge hypothesis for human social realism. It provides great insight into humanity’s incessant enterprise to construct and destruct the world around for increasing conveniences. What it means in general understanding is, we humans have this capacity only to devise the usages of the energy already available and still it remains what it was. We convert the potential energy into kinetic energy and this very moment entropy sets in… no usage of any advancement can use the energy 100% and part of it goes into the system… The hypothesis is; as energies are used for creating order within a mechanism, part of it is always lost in the process and this is the disorder, which goes into the system or the immediate environment where the mechanism operates. As energy can never be destroyed, the disordered energy, lost in the mechanism is stored as entropic energy in the system. The construction process releases the entropic energy, which is stored in the system as destructive energy. In simple words, the process or mechanism of ‘order’ itself releases the entropic energy, which is stored as ‘disorder’ in the system, within which the process works. This happens, as energy is constant, it is always conserved but takes different shapes – from potential to kinetic and part going to energy fields (systemic). The other fact is that everything tends to become less organized and less orderly over time. Therefore, greater the time-period of ‘order-building’, larger shall be the propensity of ‘disorder-building’ in the system. Given that, systemic efficiency has a larger impact on the efficiency of the process and mechanisms within it, entropic energies in the long-run would ensure recurring disorders in the overall working-efficiencies of order processes. Now, the key question is what is a ‘long-run’? It is crucial to know that because, only then we can gauge the extent and intensity of the disorder and entropic energy in our systems. If the period is short, we have a system, which has low disorder and low entropic energy, and if the period is long one, we are in a chaotic and catastrophic system. Consider the scientific facts available about the life of our Sun and the universe we live in. The Sun is the source of life on Earth that is why, its end means end of all things, living or non-living on the Earth. We all know, our dear Sun came into existence some 4.6 billion years ago. The scientists are affirmative that after 4 billion years, the Sun shall be so hot that all life on Earth shall vanish. Some however have belief that such a stage can come even after just 2.5 billion years. The universe however has longer life. It came into existence almost 14 billion years ago and shall survive about 35 billion more years. What does this mean...? Clearly, we are halfway through our entire life period on this earth! Is that a period enough to be termed as ‘long-period’ of time? Seems so. Even if we consider the entire life-period of universe, we are past one quarter of it. Can we assume, humanity as a whole, have passed long enough time on earth to make the hypothesis true that – “everything tends to become less organized and less orderly over time”. As we are halfway through, we must all understand and accept that we live in times when our mechanisms of order and construction has spewed out huge amounts of ‘disorder and destruction’. This is a systemic trouble. It is a procedural predicament, which we humans cannot wish away. What this causal philosophizing on the thermodynamics realism means for humanity in general and in particular? This seems the most important aspect to explore and understand. Stephen Hawking says, “A frightening possibility is that intelligent life is not only common, but that it destroys itself when it reaches a stage of advanced technology. That’s why we have not met aliens as yet…” This is disorder and entropic energy at its best! Every human needs to understand and accept the intuitive mechanism of energy in and around us. We always see a lot of chaos, confusion, conflict and catastrophe around us and; often, these destructive energies are so potent and omnipresent that we feel frustrated and often start believing that our systems have gone wrong beyond redemption and humanity is doomed. Be it a developed and empowered society or an underdeveloped and weak one; the systemic entropies make a larger population feel frustrated and in anger and revolt of the system, especially the authoritative system. We all often think, our leaders or those in control of resources and authority have misused their briefs to create such a chaos and conflict. We are fast becoming restless about our lost faith in the system we are part of. We usually fail to see the larger picture. The entropy is systemic; we all contribute to it. It is there because it intrinsically has to be there. As time passes, every next day brings about more entropic energy into play in the system. This is cardinal principle of physical realism of the universe. More we grow in time and space, larger our mechanism for excellence and order, more and more becomes the disorder and entropy in the system. Always remember, we have come halfway mark; too much we have constructed for the destructive energy to be under control and within comfort zone. It cannot be that everyone contributes in the entropy but blame should be passed on to handful who are in the authoritative seats. This only adds to the systemic entropy. We have become a complex living conundrum. We all see it around; we all have ourselves discovered the rules of physicality. Still, we do not wish to accept it. It is interesting how we all subconsciously prefer the energy of entropy in our lives and the life-enterprises. For example, we say it to ourselves and everyone, “If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got… stretch it out… leave the comfort zone and dabble into the pond of uncertainty to catch a larger and better fish…” Rather unconsciously, we all add entropy into the system. Intelligence and all popular societal cultural benchmarks of successes and goodness add a hell lot of entropic energy into the system and it is only natural that systemic health is hitting abysmal low. This is what Hawking says when he predicts, ‘intelligent races are suicidal in tendencies…’ In simple terms, complex intelligence over simple instincts is growth but growth also leads one closer to death! Why only living beings; our dear Sun is also becoming more intelligent as it is burning more fuel and getting hotter by the day. Around 2.5 billion years from now, it shall become so intelligent and ‘good’, warming up so much that it would end all lives and things on earth, finally burning itself in 4.5 billion years. Coming back to where we started, “… disorder and entropic chaos is far more creative energy… you are better off only when you land in the probabilistic multiplicity of uncertainty and completely taken to randomization of eventualities by the typhoon of disorder and chaos…” This is what fuels ‘intelligence’. Being intelligent; of course in contemporary and popular benchmarks is akin to riding the entropic energy and fueling all such constructive probabilities and options for human consumption, which would result into more entropic eventualities. Evolution is labeled as chain of accidents’. Call it ‘probabilistic multiplicity of uncertainty, completely taken to randomization of eventualities’. Loren Eiseley said very rightly, “It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.” The randomization of eventualities of the entropic energy established through ages of evolution, happily benchmarked by humanity as ‘successes’ is what we all know as entropic mechanism of intuitive physicality but fail to see and accept… this has to be understood, accepted and remedial measures taken… lest we all perish… Stephen Hawking calls for this remedial step and terms it as humanity needing to enter into a new phase of "self designed evolution," rather than random and accident-designed evolution, in which we the intelligent humans will be able to change and improve our DNA. This shall enable us to take humanity even to other planet, long after our Sun dies… This is however still a bit far away. It shall take time before humanity comes with a technology to create ‘super-humans’ who shall then write a different history of humanity. Until then, we all poor normal humans have to survive and sustain in this chaos and conundrum. We have to understand this entropic energy and also the ‘success-benchmarks’ that we all follow without scant understanding of what and how they are and what randomization of further entropic eventualities they lead us to… this can help our peace, if not make us happy… For More : http://zeroistic.blogspot.in/
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