Could it be that entropy drives both complexity and disorder?

In my article "Creative Friction" I talk about this mysterious connection between entropy and evolution.

"One of the laws of the universe is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. Friction directs and transfers energy in particular patterns, maintaining and building complexity. The concept of entropy plays an important part in this — often described as an irreversible “trend toward disorder and randomness”, entropy is now being perceived increasingly as a trend toward greater levels of complexity beyond the current ability of a human to distinguish pattern. Friction increases entropy which increases complexity.

Jeremy England, a physicist at MIT, describes how an open-system (a constant source of energy entering a system) predictably leads to increasing complexity in order to dissipate energy.

“ The formula, based on established physics, indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere), it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy.”

Carlos E. Perez describes the role of “entanglement” and chaos in the development of complexity. As complexity increases exponentially, the more random it appears.

“Chaos and Entanglement, acting both in time and space leads to what we perceive as randomness. This randomness is the effect of emergent complexity and not some mathematical notion of intractability”."

It could be that we've been thinking about entropy all wrong, as if it was opposed to evolution and the driving force towards increasing complexity. But what if it actually IS the same force and we are just too blinkered to see when "randomness" is actually a pattern too complex for us to understand?

https://ladyreverie.medium.com/creative-friction-eb51c8b6a927