
Episode 57: Quantum Immortality / Quantum Torment
The Theory of Anything
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How Entropy Relates to Us
The current theory of entropy is probabilistic. But if you really think about it, like we say that we always move towards disorder - there's some weird set of really improbable circumstances where order will not form just by chance. Ken Rose then tries to do a calculation and he says the probability of our universe existing in the low entropy state is 10 to 10th in one million odds. It would be an extraordinary figure even for the sedentary person who could write down the number 123rd zeros on each separate neutron in the entire universe. You can think that it would be much more at some level than the whole evolutionary history aligning just right to create my brain in this reality.
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