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Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick

COMPLEXITY

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Is Entropy the Foundation of the SFI?

The idea of that you travel back in time and then you'll wind up in your same body. That I think exists purely as a narrative convention. The only one that has any kind of physical justification would be the one where you're doubled up. There's no basis for us in physics. This question has to be about entropy. We know from second law thermodynamics that entropy breaks the symmetry of time. Isn't this a paradox?

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