The important thing to understand that it is not the possibility of change, motion, and becoming that needs explanation, but rather persistence, stability, and endurance. It is a stable entity that is improbable, not entropy. If we begin from a meta/physics premised on stability as “natural” and primordial, we’ll necessarily fall into onto-theology. We will be required to refer to some primordial ground, some first principle, some first being, that introduces motion into the pluriverse: Aristotle’s unmoved mover, the God of the three monotheistic religions, Plato’s Demiurge. Where stability, motionlessness, stasis is treated as ontologically primitive, we always require some agency from outside being to account for the emergence of motion. Change and motion become things to be explained.
But where in our experience do we ever encounter a ubiquity of stability over motion? Oh, to be sure we encounter “continuity”, the persistence or endurance of a variety of entities. …
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