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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
Shifting frames of reference isn't the final word on the second law. In order to account for the behavior of the entire cosmos, given the second law, cosmological models require positing the existence of "dark matter" which is wholly unobservable and must account for the majority of the matter in the universe. Science is filled with such phantasmagoric conceptions.
Suggesting an anti-entropic principle to account for the complexifiction of things toward life and the ultimate acheivement of concsiousness is not such a long shot as positing the existence of "dark matter" IMO.
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The second law has conditions that must be met. The first and foremost is that the system must be closed. The earth is not a closed system, in fact the earth is a cooling planet (heat radiation into space is higher than energy input from the sun). A cooling system is one in which entropy is decreasing because there is a net loss of heat occuring. This cooling allows complex chemical arangements to occur naturally and spontaneously. Life is nothing more than a complex chemical arrangment. Intelligence is something yet to be defined but it derives from life.
And you should note that only some of the cosmological models require the existence of dark matter (matter that doesn't emit light). There is no one unified cosmological model, the debate is still out on that subject, and although dark matter seems mystical it really isn't, we know from observation that there is matter in interstellar space (approx 1 hydrogen atom per cubic meter).