Is the argument you’re making that there are localized areas of space that possess lower levels of entropy, and that living systems can be generalized as simply lowering the entropy in an area of space?
Yes, that’s part of it. As to what is “local”, that’s a question of where we draw boundaries, and in fact this gets at an issue fundamental to all of this, which is we have to have some way to even draw these boundaries. That’s a free variable that has to be fixed, ironically, by telos.
Yes, that’s part of it. As to what is “local”, that’s a question of where we draw boundaries, and in fact this gets at an issue fundamental to all of this, which is we have to have some way to even draw these boundaries. That’s a free variable that has to be fixed, ironically, by telos.