It is true that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in different human cultures, different times, different cultural environments, or different religious traditions.

If they meet; if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.

Werner Heisenberg

3.11.2011

TAO 19- Thermodynamics is Not Society

Forget about knowledge and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times better off.
Throw away charity and righteousness,
and people will return to brotherly love.
Throw away profit and greed,
and there won't be any thieves.
These three are superficial and aren't enough
to keep us at the center of the circle, so we must also:
Embrace simplicity.
Put others first.
Desire little.


We can’t out-think the law of thermodynamics.  Thermodynamics is not an anthropomorphic, all seeing, all knowing, version of ourselves that responds to petitions for change based on personal desire.

Entropy and Enthalpy don’t care about us.  Dissipation of energy and chaos theory is not related to our concept of the universe or the social demands we determine to be right.  There are no stock options on Entropy, INC.  

Even if we cap and trade or legislate our way into a sense of wellbeing, we fail.
Thermodynamics is simple, intuitive, and demanding.


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