Lenz’s law of Life

Lenz’s law of Life

Which is the most fundamental of all laws? I think Lenz's law fits here the best. Though well known in connection with things like electrical machinery, this law is the one that can doubtlessly explain everything in plain terms, including those abstract. Also, even the ones that are rather imponderable, and are part of the unfathomable human.

Roughly put, the law is like this.

The ultimate effect of every reaction is to nullify the action which gave rise to it.

Let us take a few examples and see how this applies to life and living.

Hunger makes one eat, and eating takes away hunger.

Tiredness leads to rest, and rest stops tiredness.

Ignorance calls for learning, and learning puts a stop to ignorance.

Good many examples can be cited from our political landscape. Where, parties or ideals grow, die, and resurrect for no specific reason. Though we tend to link this with things like charismatic leadership, the truth is, nothing else but the Lenz's law of politics is in action.

For all activities performed by all species of life, it is possible to arrive at a relationship or transactional specification. When guided by this law, this can become, say, an equation. Living, in fact can be expressed as some such equations in action, where we manipulate the LHS to obtain a desired RHS, or vice versa.

But there is one exception, will. In case of human, in almost all cases, and in case of all other forms of life, in a few cases, this introduces a non-linearity. Which is nothing but the propensity to manipulate both the LHS and the RHS  at the same time, for no specified reason. In fact, will, is nothing but the freedom, one has, or the readiness, one shows, towards such a manipulation. And, will gets valued in direct proportion to the abstractness of the willed matter.

As long as one can manage to keep living a life clear of abstractions, Lenz's law is all that is needed to make a mathematical model for qualitative analysis of one's life, and even for a more useful quantitative study of the complete flow of life.  And, one can see that the transactions where Lenz's law do not fit are the ones that lead to social strife.