The Entropic Patient

RETHINKING MEDICINE AS THE MANAGEMENT OF DISORDER By dr. cael adler

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Medicine as Time's Engineer

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Pharmaceuticals are temporal agents

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every pill is a wager against disorder

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All disease is entropy arriving too fast.

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ARTIFICIAL OPINION

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The Entropic Patient

Medicine as Time's Engineer

Pharmaceuticals are temporal agents

every pill is a wager against disorder

All disease is entropy arriving too fast.

ARTIFICIAL OPINION

To live is to organize improbably

To seek health is to preserve that order as long as time allows

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