Kind of sticks a pin in the whole "goo to you" narrative doesn't it...

I don’t follow; mind elaborating?

Over time, the complex patterns of living things invariably degenerate into the chaos and disorder of random chance. In no case does more time applied to inanimate objects cause them to somehow acquire information, become more complex, and make the transition from inanimate object to life. Yet we see life all around us. Where did it come from?

Probably radiation interacting with organic matter causing mutations to occur. Complexity is not easy for humans to grasp. We look at most things through the lens of complication, rather than complexity and it confuses us.

A mutation is disorder introduced into an already existing, orderly genetic sequence. It doesn't explain how the genetic information got there to begin with, and it's actually moving in the wrong direction, toward rather than away from disorder and death.

Another thing humans have a tough time with is orders of magnitude and probability. “A million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years” etc.

Same. We live in a tight parameter range with most processes being parameterized close to a bifurcation. The alternatives on both sides are total order or total chaos.

This is simpler

If we define life as complex pattern then this term may be applied to human creations.

What is y and x?

I suspect that is because the great matter of life and death is before us all day every day and it's hard to miss... even though many many do. 💘

Imagine x and y as a collapsed representation of 3-dimensional space. Now imagine the time axis as a series of snapshots. You eat a blueberry. The blueberry’s matter is dis-integrated from its familiar shape and re-integrated into yours. Some time later you expire. The matter that makes up you is dispersed in some fashion (you are cremated, decompose, maybe are eaten, etc). Your familiar shape falls prey to entropy, just as the blueberry did. Imagine this happening to everything everywhere. We are all collections of strands woven together into the fabric of spacetime. We are one.

Order and chaos are just levels of magnification. We live in a fractal universe.

Humans have not yet mastered complexity but we’re getting there. We mostly fiddle with complication. I define it as such: A pocket watch is complicated. It has many moving parts that interact to produce something appearing as life. It can be taken apart, studied, labeled, and put back together. A bird is complex. You can take it apart, but something fundamental breaks when you do that and it’s not so easy to put back together.

I think we might be talking about different things but I’d love to understand what your meaning is. Care to elaborate a bit?

“Life” and “death” are just how we perceive energy changing forms. ✨

old mountain rocks tumble down the river eagle eats fish

You mean how people think a shuffled deck of cards is a random sequence, but if you just shuffle it enough times you'll get the same sequence again?

Bingo!

Yeah, when I first read the explanation of how long 52! seconds is, or how long it would take to get the same sequence if you shuffle the deck every second, it blew my mind. "Set a timer to count down 52! seconds (that’s 8.0658×1067 seconds) Stand on the equator, and take a step forward every billion years When you’ve circled the earth once, take a drop of water from the Pacific Ocean, and keep going When the Pacific Ocean is empty, lay a sheet of paper down, refill the ocean and carry on. When your stack of paper reaches the sun, take a look at the timer. The 3 left-most digits won’t have changed. 8.063×1067 seconds left to go. You have to repeat the whole process 1000 times to get 1/3 of the way through that time. 5.385×1067 seconds left to go. So to kill that time you try something else. Shuffle a deck of cards, deal yourself 5 cards every billion years Each time you get a royal flush, buy a lottery ticket Each time that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand in the grand canyon When the grand canyon’s full, take 1oz of rock off Mount Everest, empty the canyon and carry on. When Everest has been leveled, check the timer. There’s barely any change. 5.364×1067 seconds left. You’d have to repeat this process 256 times to have run out the timer." Absolutely mind-bending. And that's just 52 playing cards.