Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

entropy  /'ɛntrəpi/,  n. a measure of the state of disorder of a system. [Gk  en-  +  trope transformation]

Looking at my collection of op-shop embroideries and doilies etc., I'm often struck by the amount of energy and love that's been captured in these piece. They are time capsules of a woman's thoughts. Each piece is full of embodied energy from loving souls. I can't bear to think of these little gems as discarded.

Looking at my own pile of rejects/experiments/bits/left-overs I'm reminded of thought processes and ideas. It's a landscape of the brain firing all over the place simultaneously, enabling flexible thoughts to make connections and relationships.

Yesterday I participated in a research project on Synesthesia. I found this interesting passage: 

"Synesthesia causes excess communication amongst brain maps......... Depending on where and how widely in the brain the trait was expressed, it could lead to both synesthesia and toward linking seemingly unrelated concepts and ideas - in short, creativity. This would explain why the apparently useless synesthesia gene has survived in the population."

("The Frog who croaked blue: Synesthesia and the mixing of the senses" by James Ward)