Energy, Entropy, AI, and the Origin of Life and Mind

"Energy is more accurately, then, a relationship of difference or asymmetry, embodied in some substrate, and which is spontaneously unstable and self-eliminating—a tendency described by the second law."
Terrence W. Deacon in Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

Now that the world has changed, you just have to ask an AI about the depth of this sentence, and you will dive straight into a fascinating universe of ideas about the emergence of life, mind, and beyond.