About entropy and what we actually see

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Yes, entropy I observe, as a burning candle not ever being unburned and so forth, but what about all the living things we see on our planet? It is surely a more structured form of matter than before, and although I have heard explanations I haven’t grasped the explanation of how in spite of the apparent structuring, entropy still increases.

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Living things are not a closed system, they produce lots of entropy. We excrete digested food and metabolism byproducts like CO2, we radiate heat, we do lots of things that increase the overall entropy around us. Life is basically a non-closed system that constantly and incessantly increases the entropy outside of it to keep it low inside. We’re basically an entropy pump. A bucket floating in the middle of the ocean trying to stay empty.

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