I Chaos

Randomed by Rituraj / at 11:40 PM / /

Second Law of thermodynamics states, in layman terms, that in the environment, the amount of disorder and chaos will always increase. This entity which always increases is also called entropy. It goes without saying that we humans are but a tiny component of this universe or the environment. That said, the conclusion that follows is that humans will also always tend towards more chaos. And the proof is all around us. Compare the earth millions of years ago when it was not infested by us humans to today's earth. Do you think we have brought more order to this "environment". I think not.
Technically speaking, we have reproduced...a lot. By doing this we have added only more chemicals, more interacting organs, more sounds etc. to this world. And as we know, the more there is in the world the more chaos there is - according to the second law of thermodynamics. But let us leave the technicality aside. Let's talk about the abstract (and according to me nonexistent) concept called life. Was life earlier more peaceful or is it more peaceful today? Why do we yearn for resorts with trees and the sound of breeze? Is that not how the neanderthal used to live? Without a doubt, life today is more full of chaos than it was earlier. Sure, our life expectancy has gone up. But what is death? Death is peace. Death is anti-chaos.
So what if we are nothing but mere instruments of chaos? I think that is what we are. We are not "Life". We are a complex mass of interacting chemicals following the laws of physics and hence tending towards chaos. No matter what we do, we are nothing but a part of this universe and the second law applies to us as much as it applies to anything else. As a result, irrespective of how much we humans achieve or advance in science & technology, we can never reduce the amount of chaos in this world....only increase it. So you might argue that all that has happened till now with the human race is for the good but I am not so sure about that. I don't know if it is good or bad but I know this - whatever we have achieved has got nothing to do with being the most evolved and intelligent race.
Look at it in this way - imagine an iron sphere (like a marble) kept on a platform. What happens if we tilt the platform - the marble rolls down (generating heat etc and adding to entropy or chaos). Do we say the marble has "life" because it rolled down? NO. Lets try making it a bit more complicated. Let's apply a magnetic field which constantly varies in direction to the marble. Then the marble will look like it is "dancing". Maybe now we are one step closer to calling it alive? Keep adding more complications like these and you have life. That's exactly what life is - an inter&intra=reacting system of extremely high complexity which follows the rules of physics and chemistry. So the only difference between you and a stone is complexity. What you are doing is nothing great or extraordinary compared to what an idle stone on the ground is doing. Both of you are in tune with the laws of physics, chemistry, biology etc. No matter what you do, you cannot violate these laws.
We humans have played little part in the way the the world has turned out today. Irrespective of what we invent, the result will always be the same - more chaos, more disorder, more sorrow. Even if we stop inventing things and go back to early-man way of life we still cannot affect the chaos. The chaos is ever-increasing; forget about being able to reduce it, we are a vital cog of this chaos chugging universe.
So there is no such thing called life. There is only chaos and we are its greatest harbinger. We are mere lifeless components of the universe adding to the chaos of what we know as existence.