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Built by Entropy: How All Structures Reveal a Deeper Law of Creation

Built by Entropy: How All Structures Reveal a Deeper Law of Creation

Guillot, David

Paperback

Series: Entropy - The Sentient, Book 2

Philosophy

ISBN13: 9798290454023
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 23 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.21 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if structure isn't designed against entropy-but with it?

We see the results everywhere-branches, veins, roadways, coral, capillaries, rivers. Patterns that seem to recur across nature and civilization, across scale and time. But we rarely ask the deeper question: Why do things take shape at all?

Built by Entropy reveals how structure emerges as a response to energy in motion. This poetic and illustrated science-philosophy book introduces readers to ODC-Optimally Dissipative Configuration-a principle showing that systems which survive are those that help energy spread. Whether shaped by evolution, erosion, or engineering, lasting structures don't fight entropy. They serve it.

In this book, you'll explore:

  • Why cities, roots, lightning bolts, and blood vessels follow the same basic pattern
  • How energy creates complexity as it moves outward
  • How trees grow, not by design, but by solving a physical problem
  • Why anything that holds together tends to help energy come apart
This book helps us recognize a deeper law-one not added to nature, but drawn from it: a universal law of creation, woven into the flow of energy and time. One that builds through breakdown, finds order in the fall, and leaves behind structures that seem to think, grow, and adapt.

Built by Entropy is the second volume in the Entropy - The Sentient Series, a ten-book journey exploring how everything that endures-life, cities, tools, belief systems, even you-emerges as part of a thermodynamic pattern.

With elegant language and striking imagery, this book shows that structure is no accident.

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