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by amts 1251 days ago
> Increasing entropy in a system can be avoided with an external energy source.

There was a study probably cited by Sinclair in his Lifespan book with mice genetically engineered to have 0.5-1 degree less than normal body temperature. And they lived like ~30% or more longer.

Such hypergeneralised physical thought inevitably leads to necrology in the end-point measurements, rather than biology.