Living things work in the same way from a thermodynamic perspective. They can become more ordered as long as they pay their debt by exporting disorder in the form of heat into the Universe. You are exporting disorder now as you read this book. You are hastening the demise of everything that exists, bringing forward by your very existence the arrival of the time known as the heat death, when all stars have died, all black holes have evaporated away and the entirety of creation is a uniform bath of photons incapable of storing a single bit of information about the glorious adolescence of our
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