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You leave a child's bedroom tidy. An hour later it's chaos. Nobody decided to create disorder. It just happened.

That's entropy in miniature. The universe has a powerful, relentless tendency toward disorder. Which raises the question: how does anything as ordered as a living cell — let alone a human being — exist at all?

The answer isn't that life defeats entropy. It's that life does something more elegant: it recruits entropy. By burning disorder elsewhere, it purchases the right to maintain and grow its own local order. And in that purchased order, over nearly four billion years, it built everything that followed.

Lesson 6: Navigating Entropy is live.

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Music by Brylie Christopher – full credits: Solo Brylie Christopher - Solo - Free Music Archive