Quoted from Bergan Evans on Norbert Weiner:
“The second concept Weiner has to establish is that
of entropy. Probability is a mathematical concept,
from statistics. Entropy comes from physics.
It is the assertation — established logically and
experimentally– that the universe, by its nature, is
“running down”, moving toward a state of inert uniformity
devoid of form, matter, hierarchy or differentation.
That is, in any given situation, less organization,
more chaos, is overwhelmingly more probabale than
tighter organization or more order.
The tendency for entropy to increase in isolated
systems is expressed in the second law of thermo-
dynamics–perhaps the most pessimistic and amoral
formulation in all human thought.
It applies however, to a closed system, to some-
thing that is an isolated whole, not just a part.
Within such systems there may be parts, which draw
their energy from the whole, that are moving at least
temporarily, in the opposite direction; in them order
is increasing and chaos is diminishing.
The whirlpools that swirl in a direction opposed
to the main current are called “enclaves”. And one
of them is life, especially human life, which in a
universe moving inexorably towards chaos moves
toward increased order. “
I think thats one possible purpose of life.
