RE: From Entropy to Consciousness [Part 1]

yeah right! The concept of the arow of time deals with an asymmetric time (from past to future) the entropy concept here is the one of disorder, so statistical thermodynamics and not classical thermodynamics. As decribed in the article its simply because there are more states of higher disorder than more ordered states. If you open a card deck of steem monsters, than its perfectly ordered but all other possible states are states of higher disorder. If you throw it down...it will most likely be changed (just by stastitical chance). And this change in one direction is time (same with evolution).
No change in microstates = no time.

But if you throw the cards long enaugh, it will reverse at some time (or point in the sequence) and if you throw even longer it will go back to start (just by the law of large numbers. Its a so called poincare reccurence). Thats why boltzmann showed that 2. law of TD is no physical law at all and the so called fate of the universe is NOT heat death. IF so, all our theorys would be wrong ... so obviously its different than we think.

I also heared that time is a function of entropy which means the more entropy accrues the "faster" the time is running.

yes, right! means that there is only change under increase of disorder by chance, which we percept as time. And increase of disorder by chance is entropy. And local temporal reduction of entropy is life. Because you are an open dissipative system you can reduce entropy localy for some time. Thats what it means to be alive.

Viele Grüße Lauch

$0.04

2 votes

[-]