re: Accellerating Disorder
"One way to look at "life" is as an agent to ACCELERATE the breakdown of things around it, and so to increase entropy quicker than in the absence of life. The existence of a small "standing wave" of order, in the process of accelerating disorder is an "acceptable" price to pay to accelerate the rundown of the rest of the ordered Universe."
OK, but I disagree about life accelerating the breakdown of things around it, I agree than IN THE END it's an acceptable price to pay, in that order will still come out of disorder.