as the ultimate form of is usually thought of as ***resisting*** the *Second Law* of thermodynamics that says all eventually dissipates over time into a state of thermal equilibrium and enduring uniformity (disorder).

An alternative explanation says that organization (order) spontaneously emerges in dissipative structures ***because*** of the Second Law of Thermodynamics because ordered structures are much better at dissipating energy (thus more rapidly increasing the ) than disordered ones.

The explanation (for which I now can't find the proper reference😟) exemplified this with whirlpools and how they spontaneously emerge because the water molecules in them don't bump into each other as much so the flow through the drain (transition to an equilibrium state) is faster when they are streamlined (organized) into a vortex.

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A system doesn't ***feed*** on (or ) from the environment it has to ***create*** it.

You can't get your desk organized by just acquiring some order from the environment. You have to do some and use some of your . Schrödinger admits as much:

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