system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What makes heat a more highly disordered form of energy than say potential energy?
gpt
This really comes from the defintion of heat.  Heat is energy whose precise origins we aren't paying attention to.  Have one billiard ball collide with another, and we'll talk about the energy transfer in terms of kinetic energy.  Have two gases come in contact with each other, we'll talk about the energy transfer in terms of heat transfer.  Microscopically, the heat transfer is just a bunch of atomic collisions, but instead we don't pay attention to those and instead lump the microscopic phenomena into the macroscopic one of heat transfer.  The notion of disorder comes from our lumping together of various microscopic states into a macroscopic state, and thus our macroscopic description doesn't tell you everything you could in principle know about the system.