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If entropy is always increasing, where does complexity come from?

posted by Jason Kottke   Oct 13, 2016

Per the second law of thermodynamics, the total entropy of a closed system is always increasing. So how does complexity arise out of that? More colloquially, if everything in the Universe is always falling apart, how do complex organisms like living things come into being? Well, entropy and complexity are actually two different things...