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2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future
S is for Syntropy
In the cyclical nature of the Universe there are two opposing principals, Entropy and Syntropy. To understand syntropy, it is useful to understand its opposing force, entropy.
The Principle of Entropy has effects that are easy to understand and observe. According to this Principle, all organized forms of matter require more energy than those that are less organized. These organized forms will loose their order and initial energy, unless they are constantly nourished by energy. Plants need water and sunlight to grow (energy); when that is deprived they begin to breakdown. A new car will fall apart unless energy is applied to maintain it, and a business that doesn’t put energy into maintaining itself will close its doors. As life forms age their systems lose energy becoming less efficient allowing for disease and illness to set in. The tendency of nature, systems, and organisms to loss energy and become disorganized over time, essentially the law of death is entropy.
Entropy’s opposing force however, is Syntropy. This Principle is much harder to notice, the best example of which, is life itself.
It is the law of order and organization, finality and differentiation, the ability to attract, evolve and bring together ever-increasing complex forms creating something new.
A new galaxy forming from the ruins of an older galaxy, building a business, and the bringing together of individual cells to create an organism are all…
