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67 | Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Future of Complexity
complexity has increased steadily over the evolution of the universe and so although in theory it can be a sort-hust increase nevertheless it has generally gone up but something that you said in your talk which made me kind of pause and contemplate the future grimly is that complexity inevitably as the universe unfolds over the next umpteen billion years is going to go down again. If I understand you correctly the reason is to do with entropy but I'm not free sure I have a handle on why so can you unpick that a bit more like? "Yeah I think it's very much a double edged sword," he says."There's no room for complexity in the heat death of the
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