Entropy (simplified)…

Explaining Life, Economy & other Processes

Entropy concept has roots in old philosophies (China) and as well in the West (18th century, Materialism in philosophy). In scientific terms, it is purely a thermodynamics concept used in the design of industrial systems. Entropy is the degree of disorder & uncertainty in any system, be it, industrial, biological, social, political, economic etc. All universal processes are created with self organizing-control mechanism, to adapt to changes in surrounding environments (in system dynamics called Disturbances), so their entropy stay at manageable levels (more details in my book, Human Models). Entropy causes losses & generate self destructive forces, hence important in universal balancing forces.
Why we need to know this ?
Because Entropy affects every thing we deal with, and helps us understand our body, aging process, life & death, civilization cycle, politics, economic systems, business, ecosystem, environment etc.
Uncontrolled Entropy (Entropy tends to increase with time) may lead to chaos.
For instance, the rise and decline of civilizations, political systems, businesses and economies, are explained using Entropy e.g. Dialectal theory and Materialism in philosophy. In all industrial processes e.g. energy, oil & gas, chemical, material & energy losses and inefficiencies, can be explained using Entropy theory (beside other causes, depending on the case). It helps us understand current, past phenomenon and events, plus equip us to deal with baseless theories and manipulated policies & media, trying to tweak universal fundamentals in a harmful way (serving self interests) e.g. if information promoted is contradicting Entropy theory stipulations, then should rejected & doubted, such as future of certain big economies & big civilizations at their peak, stock markets trends etc. For instance, human body is a “highly random and complex system” made of organs, tissues, cells, and processes, governed by perfect configuration and
interrelationships, involving over 100 trillion cells, which are unlikely to stay in good order for long without help (food, medication, life style, etc.), in spite the body ability to restore cells, but will never be perfect, hence resulting in some imperfections, which increase with time until they affect an important organ and lead to death. Same way can explain how businesses collapse, economies rise & collapse and or transform, global warming etc. Every system has an intrinsic destructive force, working against it, growing with time until it destroys or transforms it.
Had people resorted to Entropy theory a century ago, when oil companies started promoting the new attractive source of energy as the “magic of the century”, they would have progressed in a more rational way and without exaggeration, to mitigate the effect of its Entropy, in the new era, hence mitigate & slow down the self destructive forces, we are facing today e.g. global warming, pollutions etc. See Human Model for relevant details.

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