Interesting. So are you of the opinion that life is a sort of 'force of nature'? Do you think there is a purpose to this force of nature, as in, some reason it exists?
I appreciate your answer, it's an interesting way to think of things. But I was more so asking about the phenomenon you would call life you experience as an individual, the moment of your birth to the moment of your death.
Life is connected to the second law of thermodynamics. The second law says that the entropy of the universe has to increase. The second law is like a constant universal push toward higher and higher complexity; life evolves. A rock and inmate matter is near steady state in terms of daily entropy change, but can change very slow in time; erosion. But life is always generating entropy increase, in real time and second by second; metabolism goes from order to freedom and complexity.
The brain generates even higher levels of entropy change, leading to consciousness. The brain uses 90% of its metabolic energy, pumping and exchanging cations. The result is the entropy of these cations is made to lower into order. This does not violate the second law, since the increase in entropy, via metabolism, more than makes up for the lowered ionic entropy; no perpetual motion.
When neuron fire, so memory can become active and conscious, the ionic entropy increases; neurons fire. The entropy loss from the ion pumping is retrieved, while the wiring of the brain, does this in a way that allows the global brain and nervous system entropy to increase; increasing complexity of thought This is natural 2nd law based learning potential, is a key part of consciousness and adaptation.
Since the entropy of the universe has to increase; 2nd law, and an increase in entropy absorbs energy; endothermic, the 2nd law implies that the universe is bleeding energy into the entropy increase. If entropy has to increase and to do so it need to absorb energy, energy is constantly subtracted from the total free energy of the universe. The question is where is this free energy bleed going?
A few days ago, I came to the conclusion, that dark matter and dark energy may be the places where the conserved energy from the 2nd law is going. The explains why dark matter/energy has an impact on the universe; energy conservation, but dark matter is not easy to see up close. It is part of the universe, due to energy conservation, but it is not exactly inertial in nature, for our instrument to detect. It was removed from the universe, by the second law and stockpiled where it cannot be used, but where it can have a subtle secondary impact, through energy and mass conservation.
Our body and brain; life and consciousness, by bleeding energy from the universe, are adding to dark energy and matter, is storing our memory based entropic energy, in another realm, that is not easy for science to directly access at this time. But this realm seems to parallel the inertial universe; conserved energy, as it increased entropy and bled out useable free energy. The current mapping does not change Einstein's prediction, since it is not exactly part of inertial.
Entropy is a measurable value, with the CRC; handbook of Chemistry and Physics, having measured values of entropy for a wide range of substances at different conditions. It is real, but not easy to fully explain, with current theory, since it connects two separated realms; light and dark matter/energy; space-time as well as separated space and separated time.
