04 November 2010

Interruption is anti-entropic

Sleep is investment. Every piece of capital needs a period of down time for maintenance and rejuvenation. The image of the cyborg is the image of unsustainable, unrelenting systems that never need sleep, that know no Sabbath, that do not honor the natural order which requires interruption to regenerate themselves. 
The Sabbath is the last act of creation and the last day of Creation because the Sabbath leaves room for self-re-generation, which is the expression of the creature's autonomy. From the ecological perspective, investment equals interruption, that period when flows become stocks and the system reverses the forces of depreciation and instead goes into appreciation. 
Interruption is anti-entropic. Interruption in a dead world, a world that is entirely inert, will result in an increase in entropy, whereas interruption in a living world, in a world that includes self-re-generative systems, there interruption will result in a decrease in entropy. 
The laws of thermodynamics are, in the first place, the laws that define the whole, the laws that allow us to denominate a system as open, closed, or isolated. The introduction of the divine realm addresses that self-same question of where do we draw the line. The introduction of the divine realm turns closed systems into open systems and thereby requires of the leadership of those putative closed systems a responsibility to behave as though they were open. 

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