>>There is a quantity called "entropy" that always increases or stays constant, once a system is in equilibrium; but it never decreases. No way, however contrived, has been found to counter the increase in entropy.
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>This reminds me of the thesis, found in Stanisław Lem's "Summa technologiae", that life is the ultimate anti-entropy.


That's basically what I believe.

Having a "eureka moment" in the mind, when a billion ideas crash together but ultimately one rises to the top, is essentially anti-entropic too.


> It's increasing information, getting energy organized, aggregated and put to work. This is a strictly local negation of entropy, and the total entropy still increases, but nonetheless it's an exception from the global "entropy increases" rule.