Must it be entropy or can it be direction agnostic, not necessarily distructive but potentially constructive also?
What if living means you get to choose and the projective force of that choice is what we perceive as the Real?
Discussion
Entropy and time are the same. Any increase in order requires a greater expenditure of energy resulting in a net increase in entropy for all changes to the universe. Entropy isn't a bad thing. It's the currency of time.
Like money (as SOV), entropy (as a means to clock change in the known universe) must be carefully defined and pen-tested.
How to we know that entropy and time are precisely synonymous? Perception makes any knowing relative to its knower.
Perhaps you mean entropy is the “cost” of change, not its money?