Syntropy 2
‘Putting things together in a meaningful
way is one of the basic features of nature.’
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi*,
1977
Moreover, Fantappiè’s model of syntropy has also created a new meeting
ground between science and spirituality, which he indicated as follows:
“Let us conclude by looking at what we can say about life. What makes
life different is the presence of syntropic qualities: finalities, goals,
and attractors. Now as we consider causality the essence of the entropic
world, it is natural to consider finality the essence of the syntropic
world. It is therefore possible to say that the essence of life is the
final causes, the attractors. Living means tending to attractors. But how
are these attractors experienced in human life? When a man is attracted by
money we say he loves money. The attraction towards a goal is felt as
love. We now see that the fundamental law of life is this: the law of
love. I am not trying to be sentimental; I am just describing results
which have been logically deducted from premises which are sure. It is
incredible and touching that, having arrived at this point, mathematical
theorems start speaking to our heart!
[...] The law
of life is not the law of hate, the law of force, or the law of mechanical
causes; this is the law of non-life, the law of death, the law of entropy;
the law which dominates life is the law of finalities, the law of
cooperation towards goals which are always higher, and this is true also
for the lowest forms of life. In humans this law takes the form of love,
since for humans living means loving, and it is important to note that
these scientific results can have great consequences at all levels,
particular on the social level, which is now so confused. [...] The law of
life is therefore the law of love and differentiation. It does not move
towards levelling and conforming, but towards higher forms of
differentiation. Each living being, whether modest or famous, has its
mission, its finalities, which, in the general economy of the universe,
are important, great and beautiful.”
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(Entropy: literally
‘tendency to diverge’: ‘en’ = diverge; ‘tropos’ = tendency. Entropy is
considered to be a universal ‘force’, causing organized forms of matter
to gradually disintegrate into uncertainty, disorder, fragmentation,
chaos, etc… Syntropy can also be seen as the entropy exported by living
systems to keep Its own entropy low.)
