Reposting this as a main post so it's not lost in the comment section forever and ever. From what I've read so far, there's nothing that's taken the step my own ideas have. Everyone knows the universe increases in entropy over time, but no one has taken the step to say that the universe ACCELERATES entropy over time, and that it literally can't do anything else, it MUST. Any process that fails to accelerate the rate of entropy will be outcompeted by a process that does. Order is selected for in the universe, but it's at the tail end of entropy acceleration. Another way to look at it is with "fitness curves". Most life forms sit at the peak of a local fitness curve, any variation in one direction or another most likely would be a disadvantage and is selected against, however once in awhile a variation is beneficial and the process(the lifeform) starts optimizing onto a higher fitness curve. Processes that are able to increase their own traversibility of fitness curves should therefore be selected for. And that's what you see. Sexual reproduction increases variability between individuals far far more than Asexual reproduction, and Intelligence itself further increases the ability to traverse the fitness curve, this time by removing the trial and error from the slow genetic process of evolution(inverse knowledge through blood sacrifice), and onto the much quicker trial and error through relatively non lethal experimentation, where the knowledge is learned by the brain instead of by the genetics. I could go on for hours, I've been thinking about this stuff for years, calling it "Natural selection all the way up, and all the way down". Only recently I've found that "Universal Darwinism" is a thing already, but still they don't take the all important Entropy Acceleration step. Some conclusions I've come up with using this model: There is an objective measurement of value. The Universe has a very clear intent. The Universe is non-deterministic. And of course my favourite, Snugg's law: If assuming x is real gives me a competitive advantage, then x is real. Area left to explore, entropy and time. You can tell the arrow of time by the increase of entropy, in fact, it's the only way to tell the direction of the arrow of time since physics works totally fine both ways, forward and back. What if time was dependent on entropy production? What if your region of space had higher entropy production, and thus a faster rate of time compared to a less entropy productive region? What would that look like when you look up into the night sky?