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In reply to the discussion: White People Think One Black Person's Success Proves Racism Is Over [View all]TampaAnimusVortex
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Yes, disorder increases in a closed system, until you deliberately reverse it by adding energy and intelligence, which happens every day. The gutters on your house fall off, you replace them. A window breaks, you fix it.
A human body is exactly like a house or a window, disorder will increase in a system until it's fixed. Your body being made of just atoms, can be fixed by moving those atoms around and that doesn't take "infinite" amounts of energy. All it takes is either the energy required to move the atoms back into the order wanted, or to improve the regenerative parts of your body so that it can do it itself. As long as your introducing energy into the system, its not a closed system.
Yes, if you didn't eat, eventually your body would be unable to repair damage it's taken (due to the fact of your body then being a closed system).
The problem is that the repair mechanisms of your body aren't smart enough to fix all the damage you've taken, like oxidized cholesterol. The human body cant normally deal with that, but some life forms can. It's a matter of finding the genes in those life forms that can and introducing them into the normal human DNA - and poof, now you can break it down as well. There is research already down these lines that will certainly be available by 2050. I have provided a link below referencing multiple fronts on which aging is being attacked in this, or some other manner.
If genetic manipulation fails you, then there's always the direct manipulation of atoms and molecules via nanobots. They too don't take "infinite" amounts of energy - no more than your normal cells do.
So please... when it comes to science, its obvious from your use of the 2nd law that you have a superficial understanding of it at best.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence