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by 7speter 1520 days ago
Of all places, it was a conversation about the Socratic Forms in a Political Theory course I took in college that really brought the weight of the concept home to me. It went something like "Unlike the realm Socratic forms exist in, everything in our universe is subject to entropy; it is in everything's nature to degrade or decay over time."

Maybe there's more to that? I'm all ears.

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The forms are a low energy state that materially arise from an entropic process. Degradation and decay can lead to more organization and beauty.