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by grive 1072 days ago
Entropy does not drive the creation of life.

Life appears in spite of the 2nd law. The context in which it appears means that life orders its context, so 'feeds off' low entropy. But low entropy environment is not sufficient.

You must have pretty specific causal patterns in the 'primordial soup' for the system to self-organize into 'entropy accelerators' such as life.

Those patterns are feedback loops and heterarchy.