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28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe

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

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The Mammoth in the Room

In 1991-92, a satellite measured the intensity of light at different frequencies. The plank spectrum tells us what we're looking at is maximum entropy. And it's almost completely uniform over the whole sky to about one part in 100,000. We can get energy out of this situation by simply photosynthesis. That's why we live here and all that stuff is creeping up our structure.

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