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AMA | October 2021

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

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The Basian Second Law of Thermodynamics

i was recently listening to the james lady episode on structural realism, and found myself wondering about your current thoughts. How do you deal with the fact that, on the one hand, you say entropy increases? On the second hand,you say that entropy is a measure of our ignorance, and on the third hand, you learn things as you look at the world,. Asko actually, a cosmo chalisi, wrote a whole paper about it, how, in some weird sense, a good basian sees a reversed arrow of time, right? Because you just learand more and more about the world, and therefore the entropy of the world goes down. So what can i tell

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