I only have time for a brief reply.
In a graduate course on nonlinear dynamics in psychological phenonmena, we spent quite a bit of time on a paper by Rod Swenson (ex-bassist of the Plasmatics and lover of the late Wendy O. Williams) wherein Rod addresses his efforts to advance a theory that evolutionary processes on a global scale (not just biologic scale) can be seen to not only not violate Newton's second law, but also to further it. His idea is that the evolution of life and its evolutionary development further the dissipation of energy (thus, the creation of entropy under Newton's second law).
The development and advancement of life and the development of psychological processes, in his opinion and based on tons of physical data which do not resonante with me the non-physicist, allow for greater energy dissipation. Energy dissipation in Swenson's theoretical and physical analysis is achieved to greater and greater degrees as biological advancement occurs.
Thus, it is not that higher-order life and the evolution thereof violate Newton's second law, but rather that they go to greater lengths than lower-life in achieving the goals of the second law.
