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by dangitnotagain 1081 days ago
Emergence.

If entropy is the distribution of potential over negative potential, emergence is that where an outcome creates potential (of some discrete domain).

The mystifying relationship with thermodynamic entropy is that through accelerating entropy in other domains (burning), the entropy in the primary domain (eternal drag) is supplanted by the potentials provided by the external domain.