However, if the standard narrative of entropy being disorder is universally correct, then the low entropy abandoned house should be the ordered one, but this does not appear to be so, and the living house with higher entropy should be the disordered one, but this does not appear to be so as well. Therefore entropy cannot be properly defined as disorder, because order and disorder are subjective, but novelty is not subjective, and novelty can exist in both ordered and disordered systems.

The fatalistic interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics theory might be due to the philosophical assumptions of the era that created it, a culture that saw the cosmos primarily through the lens of extraction, rather than through creation. It emerged in the 18th–19th century during the industrial revolution, an era obsessed with predictability and control, and so the framework they built to define entropy reflected their mindset and were observing it from a particular technological perspective.

In reality, the universe needs to generate entropy to survive stagnation, and it generates structured systems that generate more entropy, and while those structures must themselves be low-entropy to function, the final direction must be towards higher entropy generation. Generating entropy is really the primary imperative because crystallization into fatalistic uniformity is the real cosmic tragedy, and entropy generation is the only defense, the operative currency of the universe is entropy bootstraping itself into richer higher-dimensional forms of entropy through intelligence and life.