Entropy and a Rational Look at Visionworks

There's a lot going on this month, in both our world and the world of our returning speaker Andrew Welch. Still, there's a saying for some that when Life gets messy, you eat it over the sink, and Andrew takes big bites. On Sunday, he will go out on a limb and share his latest (and still largely unprocessed) thoughts on a potential purpose to Life. Inspired by research into why civilizations fail, Andrew will take us on his cognitive journey to find more meaning, and, thanks to us, his exploration on how this pseudoscience might connect to the essential theme of our Visionworks values.

Watch the Gathering HERE

First Reading

"If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations—then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation—well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation." - Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Second Reading

"I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear." - Thich Nhat Hanh