Back on the entropy thing, I think ultimately, the Hari Seldon equations and derivative laws we ultimately develop, if we last long enough to reach that stage of enlightenment, will incorporate the management of entropy and the distribution of its burden across civilization, along with similar distribution considerations of free energy that counteracts it. If you stop to think about it, fundamentally, it's what we fight about. The big issues of today and over time -- health care, climate change, food production, fresh water production, labor availability, etc. -- can all be viewed through an entropy/free energy lens. What remains then is the management of the other tendencies of human behavior like one-upsmanship, power grabbing, appetite for various stimuli or excitement, etc. -- which, when you consider the origin story writ large, it's also about disturbances or excitement that spontaneously arose in an otherwise boring soup...life, evolution, and human behavior have inherited that and it's what stimulates progress.
-Greg
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