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Mind game: Is life a continuous recycling and improving?

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After reading "Survival of the quickest" in the Guardian (24.03.2012) , written by Ian McEwan about Darwin and Einstein and how they tried to be the first in their field (of course, when there is no competition there is no progress) and how they built further on the work of the giants who lived in the past, I became a little philosophical about how we make progress and learn from our predecessors. At first sight, we always see the same characters and stupidity returning as if everything in life repeats itself in an eternal cycle and never learns. But then, if we never learn, how can we evolve and become better? In this post I will do a mind game about how we may evolve towards a better future by recycling our souls whereby we remember some key moments of the past and so have the time to learn new things in the present life. Hope you enjoy this read. Eternal life after death? Maybe, but as it is described by religious people, who want to be in that life? If as they claim, ...

Entropy always increasing?

Recently I saw some dust. They were cluttered together so I could simply pick them up and remove them. Then, I started thinking. Scientists say that in a closed area, entropy remains the same or increases but can never decrease. Is this really so? In my case with the dust: after cleaning my house, my house smells fresh and is a little shiny; entropy is low but will soon (immediate) start to increase again. Dust will appear originating from e.g. clothes, and after a few days it is impossible to see I cleaned my house; it simply looks clean. After more time more dust is made, and people start seeing that the house is dirty, I should start cleaning again. Entropy is at its greatest and energy is needed to tidy again. However, from a certain moment onwards, I think entropy reached its maximum and will decrease again until a certain level where a steady state arrives, and this because everywhere there is energy that stops the increase in energy. In some areas dust will stick together, ...