This is very interesting. I'll step out and say it's the scientific side of Aristotle's ancient claim that things behave the way they do because they are following a principle. Now for him, the principle was The Fully Actualized and in this case the principle is Thermodynamics but the logic of the move is similar even if the final principle is different.

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