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Cosmic Insignificance Therapy (#274)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Entropy and Happiness
In information theory, there's a concept of so-called solard demon or solards teapot. The key to explain it is that the demon needs information, and that information is coming from its senses. Therefore, it violates the second law of thermodynamics. So the total entropy does get conserved by virtue of the fact that information is a form of entropy. Now, how do I relate that to happiness? Well, this subject of today's monologue is about happiness and entropy.
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