{"slug":"paper-dalton-d-m-2025-the-unbecoming-of-being-thermodynamics-and-the-metaphysics-and-e","verification":{"valid":true,"entries":1,"head":"9c493719c6bbfc54970b3dd03086633091324f8741577948c81ae0419ba9bc35"},"count":1,"sources":[{"id":"s1","type":"other","url":"https://technophany.philosophyandtechnology.network/article/view/14045","title":"The Unbecoming of Being: Thermodynamics and The Metaphysics and Ethics of Entropic Decay","quote":"Like the Copernican revolution which initiated the Modern project, there has been a thermodynamic revolution in the empirical sciences in the last two centuries. ... unbecoming might be forwarded as a new account of the essence of existence: i.e., the first cause and motivating principle of reality’s formal, material, efficient, and final nature. The paper concludes by arguing that a new and surprising account of universal ethical value and normative duty can be deduced from such a metaphysics of decay.","summary":"Journal article abstract and metadata establishing the core claims on entropy, metaphysics, and ethics.","claim_ids":["c1","c2","c3","c4"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-07T20:25:21.950Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"genesis","hash":"9c493719c6bbfc54970b3dd03086633091324f8741577948c81ae0419ba9bc35"}]}