Another example of the observer dependent nature of entropy, would be like a living house vs an abandoned one, the inhabited one has higher degrees of entropy, because it has more variations and unexpected events happening, you cannot predict what people will do next in there,therefore the system has more degrees of freedom, more possible outcomes. The abandoned house has lower degrees of entropy because it has much less variations and unexpected events happening, is lower entropy because its behavior becomes predictable, for example concrete cracks in foreseeable ways, rust follows predictable patterns. The living house generates entropy, the abandoned one loses it and approaches stagnation.

However, if the standard narrative of entropy equaling disorder is accurate, then the low entropy abandoned house should be the ordered one, and the living house with higher entropy should be the disordered one, but this does not appear to be so. Therefore entropy cannot be defined as disorder, because order and disorder are subjective, but novelty is not subjective, and so entropy is more wholly defined as novelty and unpredictability. Entropy defined as novelty and unpredictability at observable scales might be the only way we can actually work with and understand it.