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AMA | December 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is the Concept of Weak Emergence Related to Entropy?

How can a spinning mass drags space time without expending energy to do so? David Dubrow says, is the concept of weak emergence related to entropy in this way or am I missing something? Both seem to be a way of measuring our lack of complete information about the structure and dynamics of entities at lower levels when observed from higher levels. Entropy seems to be measuring our inability to detect difference in microstates when observed from a macro point of view.

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