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a lot of matter that is NOT sitting in a situation of
entropy: the sun is radiating heat at the planets. Instead of just matter
smoothing out to a common low-energy state, a burning fireball is at work.

Cybernetics states that under conditions
like this, matter does something special.

*   "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1
*
*   If we have a universe, which is improbable though it exists, it is
*   because the Second Law of Thermodynamics has two forms. One is concerned
*   with the pressure to even out energy; that is the form which belongs to
*   our stereotyped conception of the universe. It betokens death.
*   
*   The other form is about information content, which leads to greater
*   organization and increasing complexity. That form betokens life.

What would be a specific example of energy causing matter
to be formatted by information, becoming "more complex"?

*   "The Human Use of Human Beings", by Norbert Wiener
*
*   A light quantum is a very small thing, but it turns out the energy
*   transfer which is necessary for an effective information coupling
*   is quite small.
*   
*   Thus, for the leaf of a tree, photosynthesis uses radiation from the
*   sun to form starch and other complicated chemicals necessary for life,
*   out of the simpler atoms of water and the carbon dioxide of the air.
*   
*   An enormous local decrease in entropy may be associated with quite a
*   moderate energy transfer.

Sunshine on a photosynthesising leaf. The Sun as direct life-giver.
Causing matter to become more complex: simple atoms transformed to
more complex molecules. On purpose, to sustain life.

Ground zero, a soup-of-life mixture zapped with energy:

Scientists have absolutely no problem creating amino acids - the building
blocks