| On the largest of scales, we can only survive as long as the universe. But like you said Mr. Nobody, the universe is ultimately in the hands of entropy's increase. If the universe collapses on itself, then obviously anything that wants to survive is going to have a hard time doing so. But if the universe is static, it'll still become more and more disorganized, because of entropy's arrow.
Now, it has been said that life fails to yeild to the second law of thermodynamics, by making order out of disorder. But the amount of disorder that arises from the sustaining of life more than makes up for the amount of order that came about. However, as life strives to survive, in doing so intelligence comes about and in it's wake begins to reverse entropy. The amount of heat released from inventing a bicycle and then building a factory that makes them is far less then the amount saved by millions of people riding those bicycles to the grocery store instead of walking.
So what am I getting at? Could entropy possibly be the key here? Entropy constantly rises further and further towards useless disorder, but the universe tries to slow it down as much as possible, even trying to reverse it, by evolving into life and intelligence. Could that possibly be where our "good" and "bad" comes from? It is bad to feel sick, to not be sufficient, to kill and take life, which are all things that hinder human survival, which slows down our quest for more efficient ways of survival. In essence, anything that speeds up the increase in entropy is bad, anything that slows it down is good.
Just some thoughts.  |