Is Entropy Going Down?

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In the laws of physics, if entropy has been going up for a long time, it can start going down in the whole universe. consciousness always perceives entropy to be increasing along what it calls the direction of time. But even that is not yunow, you shouldn't take those statements too seriously, because theye are different ways for entropy to increase and decrease. If youare not a closed system, but an open system, your entropy can go down without any reversal in the arrow of time. All of which, to say, is very complicated and very far outside of our everyday human experience.

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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