Foreword:
This text should be read completely in order to begin to understand it.
Also, it is written in an implicit form which stimulates intuition. A fully explicit explanation that involves circuits and channels of enegy in the psychophysical system is possible, but it would require too much ground work.
Therefore, try to understand intuitively, feeling in your own body different life situations and connecting to what I wrote here.
I said somewhere that a human being is transcendence, integration and discrimination, however, there is sometimes a need for more specific definitions.
A Human is defined by the direction of his energy, and that's a direction opposite to the direction of spiritual entropy.
Spiritual entropy manifests itself in the so called "thirst for life", when people long for "life", when they are afraid that "life" will pass them by, etc.
They then turn towards external things and contents which mean "life" for them.
Entropy happens because the CAUSE of the feeling of life that they have is attributed to external things and to the release of energy into those external contents - these contents become the cause for the feeling of life, which reciprocally leads to the dispersion of the consciousness of the real inner causality of life.
The direction that is the opposite of entropy integrates the external into the inner causality of life, so that external things become a way of expression of that inner causality of life, which is the true Human order of things.
There are people who are more focused and ordered in their entropy. They discipline themselves to reach external goals, but this is still entropy because the causality of life is still seen in these external goals or in the derivations of these concrete goals, like the feeling of power, social affirmation, a certain desired identity, etc.
People who practice a focused, or should we say "postponed" entropy, are in a somewhat better position, because they still build something in themselves to reach external goals or externally derived goals. They indirectly develop a part of the expression of their inner causality, even if it is for entropic reasons in the end.
The true Human direction is not the attempt to reach something external, nor the positioning of the causality of life into that external. The true direction is the fullest possible expression of life from the inner cause.
That conscious taking charge of the expression of life is Human.
There are those who don't even long for life anymore, but lead a "life" reduced to a repetitive, mechanical relese of energy trough certain channels - automatic entropy.
Those are for example those who indulge in casual sex. Their feeling of life is reduced to a periodic release of energy trough an act that represent the external causality of the feeling of life.
They periodically must lose a part of themselves and release it trough an entropic flow of enery , which make them feel "alive". But this is false "life", dry "life", it doesn't feel complete, it is just a flow of loss, not a full circle.
In that way, the inner causality is completely reduced - killed - reduced to the supplier of energy to entropic loss.
These people are in fact dead, even if they think that they "live". Their true causality is numbed and doesn't serve to the true expression of life but kills life trough meaningless entropic releases of energy.
The difference between entropy and expression is that in entropy, energy coming from the inner causality is lost in the external, which makes us less and less causal, and more and more energy release automats.
In the expression, the external is integrated in the function of inner causality, it serves its expression.
This leads to a more and more fuller building of richer and meaningful life, because all actions return to their source and serve the growth and developement of the consciousness of the inner cause. They serve to the building of the expression of the true self - the realisation of our true nature in consciousness and action.
The full expression of the inner causality is what is called Meaning.
Why is the way opposite to the true human nature so "normal" for so many people?
Why can't they even grasp all the tragic misery of their subhuman behaviors?
Why do they feel that it is "OK", "not a big deal", etc.?
It is because the entropic release has become the only "life" that many know.
They don't know any other flow of energy other than the entropic release - and they call that "life"!
But this is not life, it is death.
It is the killing of the true life within us.