How is life possible in the face of ever increasing entropy. For a human, the probability of their atoms to be in the configuration that make up their human body is so small, it doesn't happen by chance. It requires DNA, ribosomes, cells and all the other molecular biology processes. I'd really love to understand where my thinking falls short. Somewhere I've read that life is not a closed system. Somewhere else I've heared that life is an accelerant to increase the entropy of the low entropy energy we get from the sun. Emitting high entropy energy back in space. I feel too stupid to reason about entropy by myself. I probably need to understand some basic definitions and work through some thermodynamics exercises. However taking notes of my thinking also seems to make it easier to organize my understanding. Thanks for reading. If you know something about life and thermodynamics, I appreciate any food for thought!