(12.1) Material is constantly undergoing change in an attempt to reach an absolute equilibrium or stability,
ie. absolute lack of change. As such all things existing within the totality of is are always susceptible to
change.
(12.2) A thing may possess temporary stability which we shall call metastablility. A metastable thing
may be made to undergo change by an action resulting in a loss of equilibrium. As an example, dynamite is
metastable until the fuse is lit to provide the activation energy to begin the explosive chain reaction that releases the
energy store in it when it explodes. The metastable nitroglycerine in the dynamite undergoes a sudden chemical change
into the more stable oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and water, releasing enough thermal and kinetic energy in the process to blowing the
whole thing to smithereens in the process.
A coin standing on its edge on a table is metastable. Entropy and the laws of nature would prefer that it be lying on
its side in a physical state of lower potential energy rather than standing on it edge in a higher state of potential energy. But it
will remain standing on edge until a certain amount of activation energy is added to the potential energy to make it unstable. This is done
by changing its position by the application of force on the face of the coin to slightly raise its height and the attendant increase
potential energy of the coin to a position that it can freely fall as dictated by the laws of nature and the demands of
entropy onto one of its sides.
The
brain operates in a
metastable state, constantly undergoing
change in neural configuration and functions linked to
mind so long a
neural data continues to flow into the
brain. Only when the
corpus is no longer living does the
brain reach a stable, unchanging state of lowest energy in which the
brain no longer performs any
brain functions.
Indeed, the
brain is far from stable with about 70% of the connections of neurons in the
brain undergoing a
change
ever 24 hours. The
brain never sleeps and
changes in it never stop.
(
12.3)
Entropy is defined as the gradual decline into disorder of a
thing with a corresponding loss of available
energy to do the work necessary for
cause the
effect of subsequent physical
change in the
thing. This
tendency of a
thing or a physical system of
things is the fundamental
cause of all physical
change for which
humans are
sentient, directly or indirectly.
Entropy might be said to be said to be the mechanism by which the
Ultimate Supreme
Being makes events happen in
nature by striving for the maximum
stability of
is with no
energy ultimately
remaining to
cause any further
change. That is, nature is striving to reach a state of lowest
energy available to
cause change.
(
12.3.1) The net
change in total
entropy in all the
material of
is causing a net increase in
entropy
through a net increase of disorder in all the
material of
is. That is, the lowest state of available
energy is reached when
everything in
nature has uniformly mixed all
material things into a homogeneous whole with no differences
anywhere.
(
12.3.2) The net
entropy of a
thing in a system of
things may temporarily decrease
as the result of an increase in the order in that "thing" but the net “entropy” of the system of
things in
which the
thing is present. Human
corpus are an example of such a
thing in which increased
order and decreased
entropy is temporarily attainted while living. But once the human
corpus no longer sustains the
processes of
life, it decays into lower state of order and the
entropy lost when the highly ordered
physical body was created is regained by
nature as it decays. That is, the body begins as dust and ends in dust with a net increase in
entropy in
is.
The creation of living
thing into a highly ordered system of chemicals results> in a decrease in
entropy. Living things
are
metastable and unique in their ability to maintain life so long as enough
energy is available and the biochemical components and
systems of the body do not break down and give back the
entropy to nature as the body decays
. That is,
life itself is
the maintenance of the
metastablility of our
corpus.
The system in which the human
corpus is a part includes the body itself and the
environment that it interacts with to sustain life.
That environment includes water, oxygen and carbon dioxide as well as
energy from sunlight, plants that captures
the
energy in sunlight and chemically stores it as organic chemicals as food and the subsequent extraction of that
energy from the food
that we eat that is used to sustain life. While the
corpus itself is highly ordered, the net
entropy of that total system is constantly
increasing. As such, the
process of all life
as we know it must come to an end when all
energy available for sustaining life is lost
to
entropy
(
12.4) Because an increase in
entropy requires a
change in the
physical state of
material, it
can be said that the
changes in
entropy of
is is
time itself.
Summation
(12) All material things are subject to change. The objective cause of the objective
effect of change as dictated by the laws of nature is an increase in entropy of a system of things.
Is is the ultimate system of change in all things which includes the humans corpus.
