FREEDOM AND THE BURDEN

OF RESPONSIBILITY

AND OTHER WORKS

BY WALLACE  PROVOST

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER

SUMMARY

The first law of thermodynamics states that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed. This implies that everything that is, everything that ever was, and everything that will ever be, was present at the birth of the universe albeit in a more elementary form.

The second law of thermodynamics states that a closed system without the introduction of additional energy from outside will move toward greater entropy, defined as a measure of disorder. This implies that whatever exists will disintegrate without the introduction of outside energy.

Everything that exists, everything that has ever existed and everything that ever will exist is compounded from that which has existed prior to it. This gives rise to the rule of evolution that states that a system far from equilibrium with an excess of energy will move toward the creation of greater varieties of increasing complexity. This is accomplished through the mechanism of complex hierarchical organization.

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