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So what to us seems like disintegration, Death, and the corruption of our physical bodies, is in fact a return to stability*: the 'disintegration' was in our Births. Entropy is not the tendency to chaos, but part of the history of the Universe: from absolute Order through apparent Chaos to the peaks of Diversity, and so through Entropy back to Order**. (Actually I've never been too sure what Entropy was supposed to mean in the first place.)

*'When you reach an equilibrium in biology, you're dead.' A. Mendell, in Gleick: 'Chaos: Making a New Science' (Heinemann), 1988. <880805>

**Surely all of the process is Entropy; 'Chaos' is the transitional state. <921022>

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