[JesseK]

What really boggles my mind is that my entropic experiences come back to me as deja-vu years after the experience occured. I figure that once this stops happening the universe will explode.

This next part isn't a bunch of jibber-jabber. I actually have thought about this alot since 2004 when I started a research project with a professor a GaTech that was aimed at a hierarchal-style of memory retrieval & cognitive function for a artificial cognition system. There's a paper of the basic theory of it in IEEE somewhere, but I digress...

Perhaps you're confusing the concept of randomness with the concept of discovery. Perhaps as you get older you figure out the pattern of how to discover and therefore subconsiously reject all random discoveries outside of that pattern?

Young people (well, at least me when I was younger) become fascinated by discovery and don't understand how they derived the facts in their heads about what they've discovered...hence it all seems random. Yet in reality, constructive learning is all about discovery and derivation. The only thing that is random about it is the chronological sequence of varying discoveries. Since learning curves are always exponential, we have no way of predicting when a young person will discover something new since we do not know when he/she derived the basic thoughts needed to derive the higher-level discovery. Since a young mind can hardly fathom this concept, let alone understand it, most discoveries seem to be random from the young mind's point of view.

Robots will always do what they're instructed to do. However, it is not always the creators of the bot who give the instructions: surrounding environments, rogue IR signals, incorrect programming, un-maintained mechanical systems, and dynamic interactions with other bots all have a hand in the metaphysical "instructions" a bot receives.

Hence this is not randomness and therefore the universe is not winning.