Order out of chaos... how entropy doesn't always mess things up. Nice little video, but ends abruptly. Feels like it needs to be about 5 minutes longer.
If you want the punchline, entropy is here described as the number of ways of arranging a system. If there are more ordered than disordered arrangements possible, you'll get an ordered system even with high entropy. And of course you have to consider the overall level of entropy, not just in some localised region.
I seem to recall that Stephen Baxter's Time has a nice sequence describing entities in the year > 10^100 who live by recycling information, with no change of energy or entropy, absolutely immortal but condemned to relive the same memories over and over again. No idea if this is even remotely thermodynamically accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSgPRj207uE
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