The most important transition: from inert to alive.
- The most important transition: from inert to alive.
- Inert things are default-diverging.
- As more random energy is applied, they diffuse.
- Entropy eats away at them until, ultimately, there is nothing left.
- Hollow.
- Alive things are default-converging.
- As more random energy is applied, they converge and become more themselves.
- The energy goes into immanence but also transcendence.
- Maintaining and extending.
- Resonant.
- Inert things require a constant influx of external energy to do what they need to.
- It requires an external push to keep it going.
- This is a linear amount of energy, in perpetuity.
- Hope you don't get tired or distracted!
- Alive things go on their own and need only steering.
- It only requires tending to to keep it going in the right direction.
- This can use any amount of energy, but often quite small.
- Worst case you come back and have something to clean up a bit.
- A living thing and an inert thing can look superficially similar.
- But they are fundamentally different.