Are contradictions in things or between things?
Is an event nothing but the realisation of a contradiction,
its consequences developing in logical progression as a process in time?
or is every process, and thus every sum of processes or things, naturally free of any internal contradiction?
Is contradiction only to be found at the distinction and boundary between two things,
thus any and every two things, thus every individual and every part and every aspect? – Cartesian Atomism?
The law of entropy is only a special case of a [more general] law of sustainability – the law that unsustainable structures will dissipate/disappear/disintegrate: Entropy is the law of sustainability applied to a certain level [or set of levels] of the cosmos…
And in this context, the essence of nature* is the [process of] production of sustainable** structures at ever-higher levels [of the cosmos].
*nature here seen as an non-boundaried part – or better aspect – of the cosmos & of the cosmological process. I.e. I’m not using a conception of nature that implies a boundary between the natural and unnatural.
**’sustainable’ here roughly meaning that a process re-produces or repeats itself without depleting its conditions of/for existence