In other words, fast energy flow creates complexity. “There…

In other words, fast energy flow creates complexity. “There are two simple choices. One is that the genes have been laid out and have created a blueprint for creating all the structures and all energy has to do is roll those out and once they’re in place just to keep them running. That orientation leads to the idea that the less you live the longer you will live. The idea that you’re going to burn up your... the whole apparatus will wear out the faster you use it. That all comes from the reductionist idea of a machine laid out in genetic blueprints. It’s a machine powered by a Rube Goldberg system which is twentieth century science. And the other picture is the developmental picture that...

Energy flowing from the sun, through the atmosphere is creating structures. The flow of energy itself generates structures and the faster the energy flows, the more complex the structure becomes and the more energy is saved in the system in the form of complexity of structure.

The efficiency increases but the waste is part of what’s powering it. You don’t have to think in terms of the efficiency of the system because the energy flowing through the system, even though the oxidative apparatus is getting more efficient you’re building a bigger system faster than the complexity and efficiency accumulates and so it’s the speed with which you can waste the energy whilst responding to it, building the complexity, that is holding up the whole structure. It’s simply a picture of an ecosystem responding physically to energy. It doesn’t violate any of the known physical laws, it uses them in more intelligent ways than the Rube Goldberg science of membranes, genes and so on.” - Ray Peat (#19 A conversation with Ray Peat and Georgi Dinkov: Philosophy, physiology, consciousness and politics by Danny Roddy https://youtu.be/PF27zr95Lhg)