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>If molecular consciousness and the molecular machinery that transports it (in the form of human beings) is governed by the same laws of physics that govern all objects in the cosmos, then like all configurations of mass and energy in the universe (our complexity does not exempt us from this) we are forces tending toward a state of interactional equilibrium.

This is far from a given. I'm thinking specifically of the work of Stuart Kauffman who would say:

>[Any] autonomous agent is something that can both reproduce itself and do at least one thermodynamic work cycle...[and] you cannot do a work cycle at equilibrium, meaning that the concept of an autonomous agent is inherently a non equilibrium concept.

In other words, equilibrium is static, it is non-dynamic; equilibrium is anathema to "life." Investigations provides a compelling enough of a case that I don't know that you can just assert the contrary without addressing how life would work (literally) in a system at equilibrium.