Fwd: Entropy never dies. That story.

[Mark Kohut]

Oldie but goodie to the max.

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From: ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: Entropy never dies. That story.
To: Pynchon-l <Pynchon-l at waste.org>


Peirce, as he acknowledged, was merely applying a Darwinian argument:
"my opinion is only Darwinism analyzed, generalized, and brought into
the realm of Ontology."
see Louis Menand _The Metaphysical Club_ pp. 276-277 for how Peirce's
Ontology is linked directly to Entropy and J.C. Maxwell

But what puts Pynchon on the side with James, Emerson, Dewey, and
Chardin, and Not on the side of Maxwell and Perice, is not Reality, or
Ontology or Chance, but what causes Being, and that is Creativity,
sometimes called,  the Free Will.

This is where Dewey, for example, so often labeled a Chicago
philosopher is anything but, not an Aristotelian, not Kantian, and
given his roots and his affinity with people like Jane Addams, and for
the Labor Struggle, we can see how he is champion of freedom because
his ideas are predicated on free social experiences.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 5:48 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Like this and maybe another name for Pierce's Chance in the universe.
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 5:39 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To posit that there is a balance sheet somewhere that lets order form
from
> > disorder, as if part of an equation, suggests an order to disorder.  The
> > stars formed from chaos, yet they still explode.  Paradox might
supersede
> > entropy.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 4:11 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> *love the line phrase: "contraptions that squeeze out the disorder
that is
> >> locked inside of matter"*
> >>
> >> *From an interview with Somebody Greene, physicist with a new book.
> >> Guardian interview. *
> >>
> >> *"In your book, you talk about the rising disorder – the increasing
> >> entropy
> >> – of the universe, and how that shapes its future. If the universe is
> >> becoming more and more disordered, why do stars, planets and people
form?
> >> "*
> >> "This is absolutely fundamental. The beauty of the second law of
> >> thermodynamics is that while it stipulates that the overall amount of
> >> disorder has to increase, little pockets of order can form so long as,
in
> >> the process, they create enough disorder in the surrounding
environment to
> >> compensate. For stars and planets, we can establish that the formation
> >> process discards enough waste and disorder to the surrounding
environment
> >> that the overall disorder goes up. Indeed, we humans are contraptions
that
> >> squeeze out the disorder that is locked inside of matter. We eat
things,
> >> we
> >> breathe, and when we metabolise all that we take in, we use it to
create
> >> our internal order, to grow bigger, stronger and so forth, but in the
> >> process we release enough heat and waste so that the overall disorder
> >> balance sheet is totally in the direction of disorder."
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