Thanks for the clarification, as I see what you're arguing now. It increases but nothing says that it increases as effectively or efficiently as possible.

Is that part of what these new theories are arguing though, where they are claiming that the universe does behave that way? Or is it this game where under certain conditions, molecules begin to self-assemble and thus decrease the local entropy but then must do so in a way to account for that and increase the local entropy (implying efficient heat dissipation), hence life?