Kosmic Evolution

Here Ken discusses the "two arrows of time" of entropy and evolution—or, to put it another way, a universe that is simultaneously "winding up" even as it is winding down.  We can feel the undeniable tug of these great impersonal forces in our own hearts, one pulling us toward death and the other toward life.  We find ourselves engulfed by these contradictory currents, our lives little more than momentary eddies in the tides of being—spontaneous sworls of consciousness that open for a short amount of time, before being swallowed once again by the water.