EVOLUTION AND HUMAN DESTINY 



tropy forms do in fact succeed quite nicely in surviving. 

 This appears on first glance contrary to thermodynamic 

 predictions. Yet there is no necessity for lower entropy 

 always to result in poorer ability to survive. It is only 

 a probability. This means that occasionally there can 

 be lowered entropy with an increased survival poten- 

 tial. Some low entropy forms can be quite stable. 



A GENERALIZATION OF THE PROBLEM OF BIOLOGICAL 



SURVIVAL 



Interestingly enough one arrives at about the same 

 conclusion if one were to state the genetic argument of 

 evolutionary development in the language of thermo- 

 dynamics. It would then read something like the 

 following: 



Whenever mutations of a structure take place, 

 they take place in the directions of both increases 

 and decreases of the complexity (orderliness) of the 

 structure. Those changes that are in the direction of 

 greater complexity involve a lowering of the entropy 

 level. Generally this lowering of the entropy level 

 will decrease the survival potential and consequently 

 result in the vanishing of this particular form. How- 

 ever at times mutated forms will have their structure 

 altered in such a fashion, that in addition to their 

 lowered entropy they also possess a better, or at least 

 adequate ability to survive. They in fact are the only 

 forms of lowered entropy (increased extropy) that 

 do survive. 



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