Entropy and Agency - Is There an Easy Way?

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Aaron Munger: I have a hard time seeing how there are more ways to arrange the parts of the higher entropy state while keeping the macro state the same. In both cases, once you dig into the details, the oil and water separating or the gas clumping into a planet or a star, the entropy is going up in a very standard way. What is secretly going on though is that the total arrangements that are possibly accessible by the system include aspects that you don't see.

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